mourning dove perched on a tree branch - Hayleigh Haid/Getty Images Mourning doves have a unique mix of brown and gray colors with black spots on their wings and pointed feathers on their tails. They ...

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DEAR JOAN: This spring, we had a mourning dove make a nest in one of our hanging planters. The planter was mostly dead plants and potting soil, but she must have thought it was safe, so she laid two ...

Most birds spend several days, to as long as two weeks getting their home just right. But a pair of mourning doves can quickly throw together a loose platform of sticks in just a few hours. The ...

DEAR JOAN: I have been watching two new mourning dove babies for just over a week now. The mom and dad built their nest in the grapes that cover the railing on our deck. While they were sheltered, ...

It was nearly the end of January when the first mourning dove showed up. I spotted it under the safflower feeder scrounging for morsels that had fallen to the ground. It kept itself puffed up in an ...

ST. PAUL - The cooing of mourning doves soon may be interspersed with the booming of shotguns. The Minnesota House Monday voted 78-49 to establish a dove hunting season backers say would help western ...

Most Canadians know mourning doves by their plaintive cry, but some of us are getting familiar with their taste. The Canadian Wildlife Service, a division of Environment Canada, has given the green ...