Eurasian collared-doves arrived in Marin in 2006 and have quickly become common neighborhood birds. (Photo by Allan Hack) Our last member of the family is the band-tailed pigeon, our native forest ...

EAST CHATHAM , N.Y. — The New Year splashes in, the gusting rain disappointing skiers, skaters and snowman makers. It rains and rains through the night and finally clears in the morning to a sparkling ...

At weddings, white doves are occasionally released. These white doves are Rock Pigeons which have been selectively bred to produce all white plumage. A website on doves explains the reason: "White ...

They coo. They swoop. And they poop. Everywhere, on everything and, eventually, on everyone. But legislation looms that threatens to stick in the craw of the ubiquitous urban pigeon and turn Gotham… ...

Mournings doves are common in backyards across America. Learn interesting facts you should know about the beautiful mourning dove.

Interestingly, there’s no scientific difference between pigeons and the much more beloved doves. Both birds are members of the Columbidae family, and while the term ‘pigeon’ tends to be ...

There is a Ukrainian folk tale about a little girl who, on the first cold morning of winter, found a nearly frozen dove huddling in snow. She took it indoors to warm and feed.

Taxidermy mounts of several passenger pigeons and one mourning dove (lower right) in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. (MARCUS SCHNECK, mschneck@pennlive.com ...