With the arrival of snow, we can expect to see some of the most common local birds at our feeders. The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is as elegant as it is common. A little larger than the average ...

One of the 10 most common birds in the United States is the mourning dove. Its prolific breeding rate allows it to keep up with the harvest of millions of birds annually by hunters and poor winter ...

As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...

At #12 was the mourning dove. Doves almost always forage on the ground, but they will also use large platform feeders. These feeders are easy to make out of scrap wood, and you can put a nice little ...

I first noticed the large gathering of mourning doves under our bird feeder earlier this winter. We frequently see a pair year-round, but this winter we were visited by a flock of more than 15 for the ...

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 ...

One of the 10 most common birds in the United States is the mourning dove. Its prolific breeding rate allows it to keep up with the harvest of millions of birds annually by hunters and poor winter ...