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 ...

This week's bird mystery is the opposite of the one presented here last week. Last week, we had a bird that was seen and not heard; this week, we have a bird that was heard but not seen. The sound was ...

One of the newest arrivals to the Tehachapi Mountains avian community are good-sized, grayish-buff birds with a pleasant appearance and distinctive call: Eurasian Collared Doves (Streptopelia decaocto ...

Q: We've never had collared doves before and now there two pairs of them eating at our feeders. Is this breed of dove becoming more prevalent in Minnesota? Our field guide shows them in Florida. A: ...

It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. And it’s being heard much more often these days from the backyards of Denver to the pasture lands around Cortez. It is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A burglary in the Bahamas and the threat of a volcano eruption on the island of Guadeloupe set in motion one of the fastest and most widespread invasions of a non-native wildlife species — a bird, in ...

Answer: To hunt Eurasian collared-doves, you need a license and an upland game bird validation (formerly known as a “stamp”). You don’t need tags. Hunting season for most species of dove is Sept. 1 ...

State wildlife officials say a virus is killing invasive doves in parts of the Lower Arkansas River Valley. The ongoing die-off is prompting a number of phone calls to Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...