Doves are symbols of peace, love, and freedom. Learn about their rich history and the five species in the Rolling Plains from columnist Jim Goetze.

I mostly write about native birds, species that have existed in California since long before European settlement. However, there are also a few species of local birds that are not native to the New ...

An introduced species to North America, the Eurasian Collared-Dove established a beach head in Florida in the 1970s. From there, they began an era of westward expansion, similar to human pioneers in ...

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 ...

A Eurasian collared dove in flight. The slow descent into cooler temperatures as fall approaches means it's also the beginning of dove season for many North Texas hunters. Dove-hunting season began ...

The Eurasian Collared-Dove is brown with a black collar on the neck. The wings have black tips and the tail has a squared-off tip with white on the edges. An introduced species to North America, the ...