It was early October 2014, when a bird that neither my wife, Hilde, nor I had ever seen before visited our property in southern Oregon. About 20 feet from our dining room table, on the other side of a ...

Probably no species has conquered North America more quickly than the Eurasian collared dove. It took humans several millennia to overrun the continent. Rats, which came with European colonists, did ...

"Holy smokes! What the heck was that?” my dove-hunting buddy asked excitedly. A bird resembling a super-sized mourning dove had just flown past us in the sunflower field we were hunting and landed on ...

“Holy smokes! What the heck was that?” my dove-hunting buddy asked excitedly. A bird resembling a super-sized mourning dove had just flown past us in the sunflower field we were hunting and landed on ...

Coming soon to a feeder near you: the exotic Eurasian collared-dove. In fact, it may already be there. Ten of them were recorded in San Francisco on the last Audubon Christmas Bird Count. They're well ...

Back in 1974 a local pigeon fancier imported a flock of about 50 Eurasian collared doves to the Bahamas. Ultimately he released the birds, and they took to life in the West Indies. By the late 1970s ...

Until 2000, the official status of the Eurasian collared dove was that it occurred only accidentally in the Maltese islands. In fact, up to three years ago, there were a mere eight appearances since ...

TUSCALOOSA | Ever since the Eurasian collared dove appeared in West Alabama in the late 1990s, hunters have been wondering how to treat them. Can you shoot them at all? Do you count them in your ...

Collared dove The collared dove is a regular breeder in the Maltese islands. It bred for the first time in 2003 at Santa Marija Estate in Mellieħa but now it is breeding in many other areas. It builds ...

THE soothing calls form a collared dove, perched on my neighbour’s television aerial last Sunday, mirrored the mood of calm on a blue sunlit morning which followed days of incessant rain. Streptopelia ...