One of the doves nesting on the ledge of The Kansas City Public Library's central branch looks down on Broadway Boulevard on Friday, June 28, 2024. Librarians at the downtown branch named the pair of ...

The eggs in the nest. Unlike most eggs laid in open nests, mourning dove eggs are bright white. (Marilyn McGonagle) The doves returned this year to the same nesting location — a pot for large plants — ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, we had a mourning dove make a nest in one of our hanging planters. The planter was mostly dead plants and potting soil, but she must have thought it was safe, so she laid two ...

The mourning dove flushed out of the juniper bush, a mere foot away. “Ah,” I said in surprise and then looked down from where it’d been resting. Two white eggs, each about half the size of a chicken’s ...

The longer I watch mourning doves, the more I wonder. How do these birds that appear to be so dimwitted persist in such great numbers? There are hundreds of millions of them. Let's see if we can ...

DEAR JOAN: I have a concern and I hope you can help me. Last year I had three broods of mourning doves. They nested in a wicker basket hanging at the top of my front porch screen door. Recently, the ...