Tag: dove

From my archives: Birds in Montserrat

    I’m starting to go through my archives looking for bird photographs that I took casually before I became a more enthusiastic bird photographer. These are from my visit to the Caribbean island of Montserrat where I went in March 2007 to shoot the volcano.

A Eurasian collared dove hanging around my backyard

Here in Kitimat, you hear the “cooing” of doves more frequently these days. The naturalists say the mourning dove (zenaida macroura)more common in southern British Columbia has been moving north, enticed by the changing climate. Other members of the family Columbidae that from time to time visit the Kitimat Valley are the band-tailed pigeon and […]