Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

Doves are special and adorable soft-looking birds that are fun to play with and often represent world peace and love. While ...

The mourning dove is the most abundant game ... The Inca is about half the size of a white-wing. It’s gray-brown body is covered in feathers that resemble a scaled pattern.

That loud fluttering sound when a mourning dove bolts is intentional. The whistling comes from their wing feathers, and it’s believed to act as an alarm signal. That way, if one bird is startled ...

It’s the sound of the wind whistling (or squeaking) through the mourning doves’ feathers when they flap their wings that makes that squeaking sound, so put away the WD-40. Most bird wings ...

But here in western Missouri, the sight of those familiar speckled wings against ... in a burst of feathers, one tumbled into the tall grass. “Now that is a mourning dove!” ...

Mourning doves have soft feathers that they can shed ... to come out much more easily than the larger stronger tail and wing feathers. I'm sure a casual home run derby pitch would make a similar ...

The first time I hunted white-winged dove it was during a special ... to hunt a bird whose seemingly only difference from a mourning dove was that it was slightly larger and had a white stripe ...

Last banding season, 300 mourning doves were affixed with the ring ... inspecting a wing and assessing the dove’s feathers. The condition of the wing feathers tells how many molts the dove ...

A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish ... coverts form prominent patches on the wings, contrasting sharply with the blackish flight feathers; blackish square-ended tail ...

My son Zach and I looked around just in time to see a low-flying mourning dove streaking ... and grinned a big grin when the dove tumbled in a puff of feathers. "Nice shot, Zach," Lew called ...

AUSTIN A rainy spring and early summer led to a good nesting season through most of the state and near record high populations of mourning and white-wing doves across large portions of Texas.