Mourning doves are beloved backyard birds that form lasting bonds with their mates. But just how long is a mourning dove ...

Adult male: crown and face pale blue-gray and breast tinged ... coverts could lead the unwary to identify such a bird as a ruddy ground-dove. The scaling of the upperparts is unique.

The 2004–2005 Audubon Christmas Bird Count showed dramatic evidence of the Eurasian collared-dove’s explosive expansion across the continent in a quarter century. The species was listed in 32 ...