Hunters across the state are finding their bird bags are a wee bit heavier this dove season as an increasing number of Eurasian Collared doves are offering some restriction-free shooting opportunities ...

Many Ohio bird-watchers have been traveling to western Ohio to see the Eurasian collared dove for the first time. On July 8, I met Pat McCarthy of the Darke County Birders in West Manchester (Preble ...

A fairly recent arrival to North America, this large pale dove can now be found across the United States. It flaps on broad wings, and often soars briefly, with wings extended slightly above ...

Some unexpected visitors just flew in from the East Coast, and boy, are their wings tired. Actually, the Eurasian collared dove has been cropping up in Oregon since 1998 or '99 and, according to local ...

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 ...

I know that invasive species are the scourge of society BUT … they do provide 24/7 hunting opportunities for us. And Eurasian doves are about 30% larger (not a scientific number) than our mourning ...

As I passed the kitchen window the other day, I glanced at our bird feeder. I was startled to see a pair of birds slightly larger than the normal visitors. I reached for the binoculars and beckoned to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1974 a local pigeon fancier imported a flock of about 50 Eurasian collared doves to the Bahamas. Ultimately he released the birds, and they took to life in the West Indies. By the late 1970s ...