If you live anywhere in the city, you've probably been serenaded this summer by the endless love song of the Eurasian collared dove. Slightly larger and exponentially more aggressive than the ...

As if to upset the rural order still further, the collared-dove’s benighted cooing can be taken by the uninitiated for a cuckoo’s call; country weeklies, once confident in the letters of vicars and ...

Columbidae – and the names “pigeon” and “dove” have little relevance. Those we call “pigeons” are generally larger than those ...