Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

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 ...

The pigeons which perch on window ledges and line roof ridges of downtown buildings are the subject of many opinions by the humans with whom they share their environment. Many of those opinions are ...

Q. A bird question for you: I saw a bird that looked like a dove, but it was bigger and made a different kind of sound than a mourning dove. What was it? — Ken Wise, Flagstaff A. There's a new dove in ...

Mourning doves, found throughout the continental U.S., are prolific breeders, raising up to six broods a year. Their diet consists almost entirely of seeds, consuming up to 20% of their body weight ...

Doves commonly decorate these niches. Often these paintings accurately represent rock pigeons, the feral birds of the city of Rome whose descendants still fly, feed and breed freely among the remains ...

The big city is heaven for pigeons. On a bright, autumn day they greedily wolf down hand-outs in Bryant Park in Manhattan. Behind the New York Public Library, lots of street vendors dispense all kinds ...

The early fossil record of the group is poor, with the oldest specimen being from the Late Oligocene of Australia. The group has no Paleogene fossil record in the Northern Hemisphere as yet, and ...