The cooing birds that many have sung about at Christmas are once again a hot topic. The Guardian reports that U.K. conservationists and locals are breeding and releasing hundreds of turtle doves to ...

The cultural stories attached to the turtle dove are so complicated, so varied, that you could well imagine them framing one of those riddles you find inside a Christmas cracker. ‘Which bird, named ...

When it comes to mourning doves, the world agrees with my usual instinct: the most essential thing to do is listen. And what almost everyone seems to hear in their namesake voice is melancholy and ...