Vistas of Whitewings

A plague of doves at Rancho Caracol

For the mildly salacious, hunting white-winged doves in Mexico calls to mind lurid mounds of ruddy shotgun hulls and positively obscene gray heaps of slaughtered birds. Despite there being more retailing (by hunt operators) than reality to such notions, the fact is that you can fire a good many more shells at a far greater number of doves in one August afternoon in Mexico than you are likely to over an entire Labor Day weekend north of the border-and still remain within the letter of the law. What I have found, though, after some study, is that there is far more to the words "Mexico" and "whitewings" than merely shoot-shoot.

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