SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Meet George, the ring-necked dove. George lives at the Dickerson Park Zoo and is one of the many animals that participate in the zoo’s educational programs. Ring-necked ...

Where there is controversy, it often concerns the dove releases that use real doves. Those birds, known as white ringneck doves, lack the survival and navigational instincts of homing pigeons and ...

While ring-neck doves were bred in cages to be kept as pets, rock pigeons were bred in fields to be eaten. Adult pigeons had to care for themselves, while their offspring, ...

Cloud is a ring-necked dove. All three are trained, licensed therapy animals. Lirocchi, a ninth-grader at Saddleback Valley Christian School in San Juan Capistrano, ...

(People often ask me about the “ring-necked dove” in their yard, usually thinking of this bird.) As its name suggests, this bird is not native to California and is in fact a fairly recent arrival.

It’s the forgotten flock of Flushing Meadow Park. More than two dozen helpless albino ringneck doves — presumably released into the wilds of Queens as part of a wedding celebration &#82… ...

Only in America. Four homeless doves living by their wits in a Queens tree are now perching on crystal chandeliers in an Upper East Side mansion. They’re among 45 albino ringneck doves found … ...

I live just above Imperial Highway, and I have not only mourning doves, but also ring-necked doves, bushtits, house wrens, hummingbirds, scrub jays as well as sparrows and mockingbirds.

Dozens of white doves, probably released as part of a wedding ceremony, have been found stranded, confused, hungry and all but helpless in a New York City park. An Associated Press item says the ...

The researchers performed DNA analyses from 50 crested and 75 uncrested ringneck doves and found a different mutation in the same gene, which led to a single Gly636Arg amino acid substitution.