Given that the ringneck dove is a domesticated species that last shared a common ancestor with the rock pigeon 23-35 million years ago, the study shows that the same gene can be implicated as a prime ...

Dear Abby: I couldn’t help but notice the letter you published April 28, regarding releasing doves for events. While it’s true the birds you mentioned would not survive in the wild, you did not tell ...

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 ...

Huge crowds turned out in Hiroshima Saturday on the anniversary of America’s nuclear attack in World War II. A bell rang at 8:15 a.m., exactly 60 years after the bombing, and 1,000 doves were released ...

As cold wind blew through the cemetery at the end of the funeral, the family turned to the man with a snowy bird nestled in his big hands. This, Benja Burr said, was the "spirit dove," representing ...

With a resident flock of six doves in her backyard sanctuary dubbed Birdland, Jo-Anne Dao recognizes that now some might consider her a "dove person." She insists hosting birds was most definitely not ...

Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be ...