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 ...

The pigeon, or dove, often became a part of religious ritual and rites of passage. While less prevalent today, the dove is still a part of ritual for some people in our modern society. At weddings, ...

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 ...

I love dove hunting. Probably for multiple reasons. It is a low-key hunt. Mild weather. Not intense, and it involves some high-speed shooting. How can you not love all of those factors? Then there are ...

Huge crowds turned out in Hiroshima Saturday on the anniversary of America’s nuclear attack in World War II. A bell rang at 8:15 a.m., exactly 60 years after the bombing, and 1,000 doves were released ...

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 ...