"Holy smokes! What the heck was that?” my dove-hunting buddy asked excitedly. A bird resembling a super-sized mourning dove had just flown past us in the sunflower field we were hunting and landed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Holy smokes! What the heck was that?” my dove-hunting buddy asked excitedly. A bird resembling a super-sized mourning dove had just flown past us in the sunflower field we were hunting and landed on ...

Coming soon to a feeder near you: the exotic Eurasian collared-dove. In fact, it may already be there. Ten of them were recorded in San Francisco on the last Audubon Christmas Bird Count. They're well ...

For the past couple of years, dove hunters have reported seeing a bird that resembles a mourning dove but is bigger and lighter in color. Some have seen the bird on the wing and chosen not to shoot, ...

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 ...

HUNTING -- The 2017 mourning dove hunting seasons open in Idaho and Eastern Washington on Friday, but hunters can warm up on a similar bird with the blessings of wildlife biologists. The Eurasian ...

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 ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The Eurasian collared-dove is an exotic species that's unprotected in Washington and Idaho and can be shot by licensed hunters year-round where hunting/shooting is allowed.

Early in September, Rudy Darling confirmed the first Nevada County record of a Eurasian Collared-Dove near the western Nevada County-Yuba County border. Rudy Darling is the Nevada County compiler for ...

Animals creating artwork is a magical thing, whether there's actual intention behind it or they're just having fun for fun's sake. The preferred medium for most animal artists is paint, since they don ...