This association of doves with peace and gentleness has long cultural standing. You can find it going back thousands of years in classical and Biblical traditions as well as in in modern customs.

Images of doves are everywhere this holiday season, symbols of peace that surely provide an urgent message for today's strife-torn world. As birds go, however, I can't say that doves are more ...

In a final gesture at the Vatican's annual "Caravan of Peace," Pope Francis watched with a wide smile as two children at his side released a pair of white doves from the window of the Apostolic ...

Mourning doves’ population is dropping, while white-wings are increasing their territory. Both species engage in wing raising to intimidate other birds eating at feeders. ( iStock ) Maybe I am ...

VATICAN CITY — Talk about your angry birds. A crow and a seagull attacked two white doves released by children standing next to Pope Francis on Sunday at St. Peter’s Square. The birds of prey ...

VATICAN CITY – Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds. As tens of thousands of people watched in St ...

We thought the peace sign was a little too ’60s, so we went with the dove.” Cathie Van, a Chicago artist who had done work for the council, joined with officials at the secretary of state’s ...

According to the BBC, three blue-eyed ground dove chicks, one of the world's rarest bird species, have hatched at the Parque ...

From where the idea arose that doves are symbols of peace is a mystery to me; they're actually quite aggressive. The other birds under the feeder know better than to get too close to them.

But dove hunting seems ironic to me: Doves have long been symbols of peace, especially at Christmas, but they’re also the most-hunted game birds in Georgia and elsewhere — more so than the ...