The cooing birds that many have sung about at Christmas are once again a hot topic. The Guardian reports that U.K. conservationists and locals are breeding and releasing hundreds of turtle doves to ...

When it comes to mourning doves, the world agrees with my usual instinct: the most essential thing to do is listen. And what almost everyone seems to hear in their namesake voice is melancholy and ...

The cultural stories attached to the turtle dove are so complicated, so varied, that you could well imagine them framing one of those riddles you find inside a Christmas cracker. ‘Which bird, named ...

The Mourning Dove is common is our yards, fields and towns. It is part of the background and as such, it is often overlooked and taken for granted. I am guilty of that. In a dozen years of writing ...