The Socorro dove, once native to Socorro Island off the coast of Mexico, has been extinct in the wild since the 1970s and now ...

William Earl Dodge Scott and John Wyley Atkins must have had some interesting correspondence, as evidenced by a letter Atkins ...

Small numbers present in some areas may have escaped or been released from captivity by dove breeders, but most birds are thought to represent genuinely wild colonizers.

The aviary team at Waddesdon Manor, just over the Oxfordshire border in Buckinghamshire, successfully bred the Socorro dove, which became extinct in the wild in the 1970s. Two chicks, known as squabs, ...