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 ...

We were looking at a dove in my dad’s backyard near Yuma, Arizona. At first, I thought it was a mourning dove, then deciding it wasn’t, I looked for a collar on the back of the neck that would make it ...

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 ...

Over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, the Eurasian collared-dove was documented in Vermont for the first time. Homeowners in Norwich near the Connecticut River in central Vermont noticed a large pale ...

The mourning dove is a familiar summer bird that is so common it is almost ubiquitous – but not quite. The dove is an “edge” species. It likes a mix of dense cover and open space, exactly the kind of ...

Answer: To hunt Eurasian collared-doves, you need a license and an upland game bird validation (formerly known as a “stamp”). You don’t need tags. Hunting season for most species of dove is Sept. 1 ...

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 ...

We are down to the ninth most common bird on feeders in Idaho last past winter. That was the second invasive species in the Top 25 — the Eurasian collared-dove. Collared-doves did not even appear on ...