What a Mourning Dove's Coo Means To hear the forlorn yet soothing cooing of a mourning dove could be a call to seek and find inner peace. Some people believe the sound is a message from God ...

Mourning doves get their strange name from the call that consists of a plaintive cooing: "coo-AHH, coooo, coo, coooo" — almost as if the birds are sad or mourning.

Michigan State Police First District said in an early August post on X that a mourning dove had built a nest on the hood of ...

The gentle cooing of the mourning dove initially sounds like an owl, but quickly differentiates itself as softer and more melodic.

In the early mornings of late January and early February, mourning doves will begin cooing and making their circling courtship flights.

ST. PAUL - The cooing of mourning doves soon may be interspersed with the booming of shotguns. The Minnesota House Monday voted 78-49 to establish a dove hunting season backers say would help ...

The sound of doves cooing also seemed intimate to her. Coincidentally, she'd been told a duet she'd created recently for a fundraiser had a birdlike look.

May 18, 2006 Dear Pat, Weeks ago DC noticed a pair of doves building a nest in the window above our front door. In her estimation, the project wasn't going well. Bits of grass and twigs were ...

Unlike these descendants of homing pigeons, the mourning dove is native. Their spring "sad" song of cooing is always a joy to hear in the early days of this growing season.