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 ...

Probably no species has conquered North America more quickly than the Eurasian collared dove. It took humans several millennia to overrun the continent. Rats, which came with European colonists, did ...

Some unexpected visitors just flew in from the East Coast, and boy, are their wings tired. Actually, the Eurasian collared dove has been cropping up in Oregon since 1998 or '99 and, according to local ...

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 ...

Back in 1974 a local pigeon fancier imported a flock of about 50 Eurasian collared doves to the Bahamas. Ultimately he released the birds, and they took to life in the West Indies. By the late 1970s ...

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As I passed the kitchen window the other day, I glanced at our bird feeder. I was startled to see a pair of birds slightly larger than the normal visitors. I reached for the binoculars and beckoned to ...