COIMBATORE: An uncommon partially white small pigeon called laughing dove has been spotted in the Nagamalai hillock forest near Nambiyur in Erode. Its finding was documented by two birders, Shajan and ...

Carla J. Dove is the manager of the Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Do mourning dove feathers and wings make noise? Why Do Mourning Doves Build Nests so Early in Spring? A Birds & Blooms reader from Manahawkin, New Jersey, wrote in to ask why these birds get such ...

Feathers are another clue, and the one the lab has been using the longest. With one of the feathers from the 737 strike in hand, Dove places it against the underbelly of the Canada-goose cadaver from ...

Carla Dove (right) and her team at the Smithsonian Institution’s Feather Identification Lab. Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian. Collisions between birds and airplanes can result in a range of damage, ...

Dove holds the single feather from the sample against the wing feathers of one dead bird. The match is perfect. "I think we have solved this case!" she declares.

Mourning doves have soft feathers that they can shed when they are frightened. Lucy Nicholson/REUTERS. Do you feel bad for the bird? Streby: A little. At least it went quickly. I ...

Dove and her team eventually referred back to the Roxie method for help, particularly step three—examining feather microstructure. They focused on a single, microscopic piece of feather that ...

A keen eye and extensive knowledge of feathers allows forensic ornithologist Carla Dove (yes, that's her name) figure out from feather and bone fragments which type of bird crashed into a plane or ...