Hearing the mourning dove again was a revelation, but with it came a realization: the wistful coo hadn't been in the air for years.

The mourning dove -- with a distinctive "cooah, coo, coo, coo" call--is a gray-brown bird 10 inches to 12 inches long with purple-green iridescent markings on its neck.

The fall hunting season kicks off Sept.1 with the opening day of dove season across the Sooner State. The ODWC office said that northeastern Oklahoma counties have not seen large numbers of doves but ...

Slightly larger and exponentially more aggressive than the more-familiar mourning dove, the Eurasian variety's never-ceasing "coo, COOO, coo" echoes from dawn to dusk around my neighborhood.

Mourning doves coo in a distinctive pattern, with a first syllable rising to a second, swelling and expansive note before fading away over two or three more notes: “coo-AHHH coo, coo, coo.” ...