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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — “Hwwwwwaaaaaaaahhh.” It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. And it’s being heard much more often these ...

On the tops of street lights, telephone poles or trees in your backyard, there are white and grey birds perching. Driving through Steele last week, I saw dozens roosted all over town, especially by ...

The mourning dove is a familiar summer bird that is so common it is almost ubiquitous – but not quite. The dove is an “edge” species. It likes a mix of dense cover and open space, exactly the kind of ...

“Holy smokes! What the heck was that?” my dove-hunting buddy asked excitedly. A bird resembling a super-sized mourning dove had just flown past us in the sunflower field we were hunting and landed on ...

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One of the most commonly sighted backyard birds in North America is the mourning dove (Zenaida macroura). It is very likely you have seen them sitting on a power line or even feeding at the park. This ...

TUSCALOOSA | Ever since the Eurasian collared dove appeared in West Alabama in the late 1990s, hunters have been wondering how to treat them. Can you shoot them at all? Do you count them in your ...