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 - ...

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 ...

Nearly eight months pregnant with her second child and barely able to get a guitar around her bulging belly, Caitlin Canty had a batch of new tunes born from major life changes like parenthood and ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - After strong winds tore through the area earlier this week, SkyWatch received the first baby birds of the season. The baby Great Horned Owl and two baby Mourning Doves were ...

Mourning doves, found throughout the continental U.S., are prolific breeders, raising up to six broods a year. Their diet consists almost entirely of seeds, consuming up to 20% of their body weight ...

Mourning doves are found throughout much of North America, but there is nothing common about these graceful birds. Here are some interesting facts about the mourning dove, which may enhance your ...

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 ...

I first noticed the large gathering of mourning doves under our bird feeder earlier this winter. We frequently see a pair year-round, but this winter we were visited by a flock of more than 15 for the ...

They may be ordinary in appearance, but Mourning Doves have, arguably, among the most entrancing and haunting calls of all American birds. The male’s repeated “ah-ooh! whoo, whoo, whoo” is the first ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Missouri Department of Conservation is banding mourning doves in preparation for hunting season this fall. As the sun rises, ...