A burglary in the Bahamas and the threat of a volcano eruption on the island of Guadeloupe set in motion one of the fastest and most widespread invasions of a non-native wildlife species — a bird, in ...

Dove season opens Sept. 2, giving shotgunners their first big wingshooting test for the upcoming hunting seasons. If you can consistently hit doves on the wing, you are an advanced shotgunner. Ducks ...

I mostly write about native birds, species that have existed in California since long before European settlement. However, there are also a few species of local birds that are not native to the New ...

A Eurasian collared dove in flight. The slow descent into cooler temperatures as fall approaches means it's also the beginning of dove season for many North Texas hunters. Dove-hunting season began ...

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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 ...

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The Eurasian Collared-Dove is brown with a black collar on the neck. The wings have black tips and the tail has a squared-off tip with white on the edges. An introduced species to North America, the ...