Description: Mourning doves are about 12 inches long with a small round head and a gray-brown plump body. Males have a bright blue patch on the back of the head and a rosy breast, while the female is ...

Amid spring’s profusion of birdsong, one of the most iconic voices is that of the mourning dove. It’s a familiar sound, in which an opening note swells into a higher second syllable, then falls back ...

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 ...

Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

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The wings of this dove are long and pointed, allowing it to efficiently maintain flight speeds of up to 55 miles per hour. The wings make a whistling sound when the bird takes flight. They have very ...