Dig, if you will, a picture of a late-summer afternoon as the sun is moving from scorching hot to almost tolerable. A cut-over grain field lays sheared in strips accentuated with round bales of hay ...

The dove season begins Monday. Since that's a holiday, you can expect a lot more hunters in the field than you have seen the past couple of years. While that will make some areas crowded, the ...

Not all birds fly south for the winter. Surprisingly, there are many familiar birds that stay in our area for the winter, ...

Waterfowl and all manner of birds fly south for the winter. Birders follow the migration, often from a viewing blind on the ...

GODFREY — For as many meanings as doves symbolize, they also are inspirational for as many occasions. White doves are used in many settings as symbols of peace, freedom, love, or as messengers. Doves ...

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 ...

Did you know some birds can actually rest while flying? That’s right: migrant birds in particular can conserve their energy, and even restore it, by sleeping mid-flight. “Many bird species complete ...

For wingshooters, the dove opener is a kick-off to what we hope will be a fall full of rooster flushes, covey rises, and greenheads dangling over the decoys. It’s also some of the toughest shooting ...

Hunters who ignore their shotguns before dove season are about to be humbled. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the average hunter kills one dove per three shots. That means it takes ...

FARGO — In his native Turkey, Essa Albawi had lots of company as an owner of pet homing doves. His entire family raised the birds, and at age 6, he had two of them to care for as his own. After moving ...