Doves are special and adorable soft-looking birds that are fun to play with and often represent world peace and love. While ...

A mourning dove perches in a holly tree ... home: eagles, hummingbirds, orioles, bluebirds, blue jays, goldfinches, swallows, all kinds of woodpeckers — and mourning doves.

Before I rushed off to worship services one morning, I glanced out my backyard ... on one of the branches was a striking, sharp-billed blue jay. It was the first one I had seen in the liminal ...

Dear Gary: I was at my parents’ house in Walnut Creek (Alamo side) and I saw a mourning dove eating seed from the ground. Soon after, a scrub jay shows up and did not make a sound. I thought ...

Perhaps the rarest quality of mourning doves is in how they feed their nestlings, called squabs. In a simple nest — just a flimsy platter of twigs — the mother dove lays two eggs.