In northeastern Montana’s Outlook, Williams catches mourning doves in cages baited with grain and places bands on their legs as part of a long-standing national effort to study the bird's ...

Mourning doves are being trapped and banded again this year by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife biologist Ryan Williamson. This year he encountered a familiar bird, a male dove that he ...

Mourning dove banding is resuming near the northeastern Montana community of Outlook this year. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife biologist Ryan Williamson is trapping and banding the ...

The pair of birds were Eurasian collared doves (Streptopeleia decaocto), a species rapidly expanding in Montana since their first discovery in the state a few years ago. Eurasian collared doves ...

So, obviously their potential lifespan is much longer than that,” said Tiffany Grundel, a wildlife biologist in Montana. Psst—you won’t believe how fast mourning doves build nests.

As a teenager growing up in Colorado I learned that the best place to find doves is near a small lake or pond close to a grain field. I started scouting Montana’s Wildlife Management Areas and ...

By the turn of the millennium, collared-doves had established populations throughout the Southeast, as far west as California and as far north as Montana. A map generated from reports to the eBird ...