Mourning Doves Take Over Man’s Shoes and Sweetly Build a Nest in Them originally appeared on PetHelpful. Do you enjoy having birds nest in your yard? Most of us do, but Instagrammer Kristin Merron ...

The longer I watch mourning doves, the more I wonder. How do these birds that appear to be so dimwitted persist in such great numbers? There are hundreds of millions of them. Let's see if we can ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, we had a mourning dove make a nest in one of our hanging planters. The planter was mostly dead plants and potting soil, but she must have thought it was safe, so she laid two ...

The nests are easier to see in the fall, of course, when they decorate naked branches. My experiences this year have been with dove and pigeon nests. The doves were minimalists: thin curls of grass ...

Spring literally came to my door about four weeks ago, when I noticed some twigs on my shop’s front doorstep. I looked up to see more twigs peeking out from the top of the AC unit above. I stepped ...

DEAR JOAN: I have a concern and I hope you can help me. Last year I had three broods of mourning doves. They nested in a wicker basket hanging at the top of my front porch screen door. Recently, the ...

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 ...