For a long time, nobody has really known how the Cuban blue-headed quail dove arrived on the island. But now, […] ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

Finally doing the Scooby-Doo and revealing who this bird really was took so long because it’s hard to sequence the ... and ...

For decades, this unassuming bird has perplexed biologists ... Now, for the first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the blue-headed quail dove with the goal of finally getting to the ...

Adult male: crown and face pale blue-gray and breast tinged lightly ... could lead the unwary to identify such a bird as a ruddy ground-dove. The scaling of the upperparts is unique.

These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of the Newburyport Birders. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders ...

A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish gray above and ... Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white ...

Tami Gingrich offers a look inside the lives and habits of mourning doves, attempting to answer the question: "Are they truly ...