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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago I was at a friend’s home on Timson Hill. He led me into a bedroom and pointed through the window to a spruce tree just on the other side of the glass. On the flat branch of the needle ...

I have a love-hate attitude about white-winged doves in my yard. I hate the burly doves for perching on bird feeders to the detriment of smaller songbirds. And I loathe the way they displaced dainty, ...

It is easy to be confused over the songs and calls of birds and which song or call matches which bird. The most commonly reported owl call that we receive is actually the call of the mourning dove - ...