Linda and our grandson, Garek, burst into the apartment a few weeks ago excitedly out of breath. “We’ve got a nest with two white eggs to identify,” she said. “Sounds like a mourning dove,” I replied.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - After strong winds tore through the area earlier this week, SkyWatch received the first baby birds of the season. The baby Great Horned Owl and two baby Mourning Doves were ...

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 ...

Catching sight of birds just out of the nest is a bit like meeting someone’s new kid. The debate is instant: Does the babe most resemble mom’s family or dad’s? In the bird world, fledglings almost ...

The power behind a ring dove’s trill belongs to the fastest class of vertebrate muscles known, reports a team of physiologists. This is the first demonstration of superfast muscles in a bird, the ...

A diamond dove sits on an egg in the nest at Mariana Greene's home in Dallas.(Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer) Christmas 2016 came for me last July. My husband's gift that year was an aviary for my ...