“I came from North Alabama where there was a lot of dove and quail hunting and I knew how ... “I’m not even sure if I knew then if it was a baby pigeon or not. But I became enamored with ...

Blue-headed quail doves were once assumed to be most closely related to the doves and pigeons of Central and South America. But keen biologists began noticing it had several unusual features that are ...

in exchange for a tidbit of something like quail or rabbit. This way, the falcons won't come into direct contact with potentially disease-borne pigeons, and the pests — who are considered an ...

Using technology that sequences DNA of both a collected blue-headed quail-dove specimen from 1958 and previously discovered pigeon and dove fossils, the results showed this species originating as ...

For a long time, nobody has really known how the Cuban blue-headed quail dove arrived on the island. But now, scientists have finally sequenced DNA from the bird to determine its origins and ...