If you live anywhere in the city, you've probably been serenaded this summer by the endless love song of the Eurasian collared dove. Slightly larger and exponentially more aggressive than the ...

Eurasian collared doves have been expanding their range for centuries through natural dispersal and human introduction. These natives of India began showing up in Turkey about 400 years ago, then ...

It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. And it’s being heard much more often these days from the backyards of Denver to the pasture lands around Cortez. It is the ...

It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. And it’s being heard much more often these days from the backyards of Denver to the pasture lands around Cortez. It is the ...

BRAWLEYBRAWLEY — When Eurasian collared doves began arriving in Southern California nearly a decade ago, hunters didn’t know what to make of them. These doves were pigeon-sized critters that mixed ...

Mourning doves sound just like they look — soft, shy, gentle. Hard to imagine the caw of a crow coming from a bird that looks like a dove. Doves do not have an extensive vocal repertoire; coo sums it ...

If Europe’s experience is any indication, the Eurasian collared-dove is likely the latter. And my romantic suspicion of our powers of observation could easily imply that the biologically crucial ...

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 ...

In one of the most amazing invasive bird colonizations in modern history, Eurasian collared doves have flown north and west from Florida since the 1980s to populate new territory — including Montana ...