Images of doves are everywhere this holiday season, symbols of peace that surely provide an urgent message for today's strife-torn world. As birds go, however, I can't say that doves are more peaceful ...

Earlier this week, while stopping at a country store in Monroe County to buy some snacks, I ran into an old acquaintance decked out in well-worn, camouflage hunting clothes. “Going deer hunting?” I ...

As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...

Doves have a long connection with the winter holiday season. Along with the Magi that brought gifts to the Holy Family at the first Nativity scene, there were shepherds who brought gifts of fruit, ...

Every morning as your author sips his life-giving coffee and pursues the internet news sites for the latest analysis of who hates whom, he is accompanied by a feeder full of birds. Yours truly has a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Martin Luther King Jr. believed everyone is born with natural rights and that the statement that “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of ...

The mourning dove, designated during the Vietnam era as the state’s symbol of peace, can be hunted like any other wild game, the state Supreme Court ruled in Madison. The court said that doves fell ...