Michigan has two invasive birds, the mute swan and the Eurasian collared dove. One of them is described as “one of the world’s most aggressive waterfowl species” -- I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the ...
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 ...
Q. A bird question for you: I saw a bird that looked like a dove, but it was bigger and made a different kind of sound than a mourning dove. What was it? — Ken Wise, Flagstaff A. There's a new dove in ...
In one of the most amazing invasive bird colonizations in modern history, Eurasian collared doves have flown north and west from Florida since the 1980s to populate new territory — including Montana ...
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 ...
Some unexpected visitors just flew in from the East Coast, and boy, are their wings tired. Actually, the Eurasian collared dove has been cropping up in Oregon since 1998 or '99 and, according to local ...
As I passed the kitchen window the other day, I glanced at our bird feeder. I was startled to see a pair of birds slightly larger than the normal visitors. I reached for the binoculars and beckoned to ...
On the way home from some "resource evaluation" Sunday afternoon, my peripheral vision picked up what appeared at posted highway speeds to be pigeons perched on power lines adjacent to U.S. 59 in Fort ...