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 ...

For the longest time, the mourning dove was the only species of these birds that one could see in this area or the rest of Oklahoma for that matter. Well, not including the rock dove (pigeon). The ...

Probably no species has conquered North America more quickly than the Eurasian collared dove. It took humans several millennia to overrun the continent. Rats, which came with European colonists, did ...

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 ...

Reports of an unusual number of dead Eurasian collared doves in yards and around neighborhoods this winter is being attributed to a pigeon virus. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 7 staff in Miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

Answer: To hunt Eurasian collared-doves, you need a license and an upland game bird validation (formerly known as a “stamp”). You don’t need tags. Hunting season for most species of dove is Sept. 1 ...

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 ...

Colorado is in the throes of yet another Eurasian invasion. Long ago, it was the Russian thistle, a Eurasian transplant more popularly known as the tumbleweed, which rolled into the Western United ...

Dove season opens Sept. 2, giving shotgunners their first big wingshooting test for the upcoming hunting seasons. If you can consistently hit doves on the wing, you are an advanced shotgunner. Ducks ...