Tami Gingrich offers a look inside the lives and habits of mourning doves, attempting to answer the question: "Are they truly ...

With upwards of 350 million doves in the U.S., mourning doves are one of the most abundant bird species. Yet it’s not likely we hear the same individuals year after year. This is partly because ...

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 ...

Polytypic. Length 11". A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish gray above and a paler gray below; white ends on the greater coverts form prominent patches on the wings ...

noticeably larger than the mourning dove. There is also a naturally occurring cream-colored variant, and this species is known to hybridize with the ringed turtle-dove, so plumage variation will ...