When I sit outside in my backyard, I often hear the distinctive calls of the mourning dove. If you hear them as often as I do, you might be wondering about a mourning dove's meaning. What is the ...

Doves have a long connection with the winter holiday season. Along with the Magi that brought gifts to the Holy Family at the first Nativity scene, there were shepherds who brought gifts of fruit, ...

What better illustration of the beliefs in the sanctimony of family life than is represented by the lowly mourning dove. This bird only mates with the opposite gender, it mates for life and it ...

There are moments in "Black Doves," the six-episode Netflix thriller series starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, that feel like any given show about a capitalistic spy organization full of deceit ...

The world is marking the 60th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and some of the ceremonies include the release of white doves. Slate senior ...