If you live anywhere in the city, you've probably been serenaded this summer by the endless love song of the Eurasian collared dove. Slightly larger and exponentially more aggressive than the ...

Compare the call of the exotic Eurasian collared-dove and the native mourning dove from links posted on Rich Landers' Outdoors Blog. Exotic species usually spell trouble for natives. Lake trout ...

As if to upset the rural order still further, the collared-dove’s benighted cooing can be taken by the uninitiated for a cuckoo’s call; country weeklies, once confident in the letters of vicars and ...

The voice of the mourning dove has been misapplied. It is associated with grief, yet it is a sound of comfort, signaling both springtime and morning, both of which are times of anticipation. Perhaps ...

Probably no species has conquered North America more quickly than the Eurasian collared dove. It took humans several millennia to overrun the continent. Rats, which came with European colonists, did ...

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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 ...

Hunters across the state are finding their bird bags are a wee bit heavier this dove season as an increasing number of Eurasian Collared doves are offering some restriction-free shooting opportunities ...

On the tops of street lights, telephone poles or trees in your backyard, there are white and grey birds perching. Driving through Steele last week, I saw dozens roosted all over town, especially by ...