Images of doves are everywhere this holiday season, symbols of peace that surely provide an urgent message for today's strife-torn world. As birds go, however, I can't say that doves are more peaceful ...

What's the difference between pigeons and doves? Are doves and pigeons the same thing? Tom Hibbert from The Wildlife Trusts ...

Doves have a long connection with the winter holiday season. Along with the Magi that brought gifts to the Holy Family at the first Nativity scene, there were shepherds who brought gifts of fruit, ...

When thinking of a dove, one typically pictures a small white bird. This bird is actually a Release Dove and is bred for the albinism that creates the white color that occurs rarely in nature. Doves ...

Earlier this week, while stopping at a country store in Monroe County to buy some snacks, I ran into an old acquaintance decked out in well-worn, camouflage hunting clothes. “Going deer hunting?” I ...

As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...

In 1969, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the legendary American singer, Johnny Cash, recalled speaking to a reporter upon his return from visiting American troops in Vietnam. The reporter ...

A white dove has been a symbol of peace for centuries. In the 1960s, the dove was a symbol the original hippies used to call for an end to the war in Vietnam. The poster for Woodstock — the 1969 music ...

ROME — Animal rights groups on Monday appealed to Pope Francis to end the practice of releasing doves from a Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after a pair of the peace symbols were ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Dove lovers, rejoice. Balloons, not doves, were released as a gesture of peace Sunday in St. Peter's Square, a year after an attack by a seagull and a crow on the symbolic birds ...

As I shoveled the millionth scoop of snow from my driveway and heaped it atop a snow bank that touched the sky, I had a freaky hallucination - there's green grass beneath that mountain of snow. Trust ...