If you haven’t noticed, there’s no shortage of articles about rosé wine this time of year. Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s...

The Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. Their habitats vary widely in both...

This morning I was out at Fort Tilden on the barrier beaches of Queens at first light, hoping to take advantage of the northwest...

Doves tend to get a bad rap when it comes to birding. A lot of those anti-Columbidae tendencies probably stem from a certain species...

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even,...

New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

The Eurasian Collared-Dove, as Larry has already ably pointed out, has spread rapidly across North America since its release in the Bahamas in the...

The Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) was first released in the New World on the island of New Providence, in the Bahamas. In the mid-1970s,...