When I sit outside in my backyard, I often hear the distinctive calls of the mourning dove. If you hear them as often as I do, you might be wondering about a mourning dove's meaning. What is the ...

Watching out my front window, I noticed a bird flying to my front porch repeatedly at the end of April. The usual house finch is much smaller than the bird I noticed, so continuous observation gave me ...

If you have begun birdwatching as a hobby or have set up a bird feeder, you know firsthand what it feels like to find a sense of joy in chance encounters with different birds. Mourning doves are a ...

It is easy to be confused over the songs and calls of birds and which song or call matches which bird. The most commonly reported owl call that we receive is actually the call of the mourning dove - ...

The longer I watch mourning doves, the more I wonder. How do these birds that appear to be so dimwitted persist in such great numbers? There are hundreds of millions of them. Let's see if we can ...

How Long Do Mourning Doves Live? The peaceful “co-ah, coo, coo, coo” call of the mourning dove is familiar to many of us — and for good reason. With upwards of 350 million doves in the U.S., mourning ...