Definitely think there should be a connection if their isn’t, I forgot about that.
Much like the dove/pigeon in story brooke, news is being delivered after a battle is supposedly won.
and we saw the birds during Mary Margrets rescue of the dove last season.
in the origanal animated snow white… white birds were seen around the wishing well.
My Theory right now, is that August sent the dove, and that he is connected to the new character M.R.J who i think may be Wait for it…..Peter Pan. Both Characters Pinocchio and peter pan were symbols of youth and we know a peter pan story is coming up. I arrive at this theory because of the clocks..as for the microphones and mp3 player maybe he’s a musician…
only other theory is that Mr. gold’s assistant, can turn into a dove and might be a spy. but we haven’t seen much of him so i’m not confident on that theory.. but a fun thing to think about.