doves

The Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. Their habitats…

This morning I was out at Fort Tilden on the barrier beaches of Queens at first light, hoping to take…

Doves tend to get a bad rap when it comes to birding. A lot of those anti-Columbidae tendencies probably stem…

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought,…

New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species…

The Eurasian Collared-Dove, as Larry has already ably pointed out, has spread rapidly across North America since its release in…

The Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) was first released in the New World on the island of New Providence, in the…

So much for not killing the messenger. This past weekend at the Vatican, Pope Francis delivered an annual address appealing for…

Whenever possible we have used our Christmas Day to see how many bird species we can get in our local…

Emotion. Drama. Intrigue. Philosophy. Yes, I’m talking about scientific proposals to ornithological taxonomic authorities. Take, for example, the gem I…