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Learn how to identify Mourning Dove, its life history, cool facts, sounds and calls, and watch videos. A graceful, slender-tailed, small-headed dove that’s common across the continent. Mourning Doves perch on telephone wires and forage for seeds on the ground; ... If you know of a Mourning Dove nest, visit NestWatch to...
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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mourning_Dove/id
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mourning_Dove/id
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The most abundant dove in the United States, the Mourning Dove is also the most widely hunted and harvested game bird. The name comes from the familiar, although easily overlooked song, a low-toned moaning cooah, coo, coo, coo.
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www.birds.cornell.edu/BOW/moudov/
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Medium-sized, somewhat slender dove with very thin neck ... Long pointed tail is distinctive for adults, while black spotting on coverts and pale color help distinguish it from White-winged and White-tipped Doves. Juvenile is easily confused with Common Ground-Dove and Inca Dove, ... Mourning dove Zenaida macroura...
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www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3160id.html
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Adult mourning doves usually live to about 1.5 years old in the wild, but one wild mourning dove lived to 19.3 years old. Some areas of the United States allow hunting of mourning doves, in these areas average lifespan is lower than in areas where hunting is not allowed.
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informatio...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Zenaida_macroura.html
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Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura ... Most abundant dove in N.A.; most widely hunted and harvested game bird. Pair bonds occ persist >1 nesting season. Flock for much of year, but not colonial breeder. ... Clutches of 3-4 likely due to brood parasitism by another Mourning Dove. Males produce crop milk 4-6 days longer than females.
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www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/species/Mourn...
www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/species/Mourning_Dove.html
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To hear the call of the mourning dove ooAAH-cooo-coo-coo, one might guess that this plaintive song is from a bird in despair. That is what early naturalists believed when they heard this “mournful” song. We now know that this anthropomorphic view is incorrect.
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www.desertusa.com/mag07/nov07/mourningdove.html
www.desertusa.com/mag07/nov07/mourningdove.html
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Department of Natural Resources - ... In the Midwest, the mourning dove reproductive cycle begins with egg laying in late April/early May, and continues until fledging ends in early September. Doves build scant nests of twigs and grass within trees or shrubs 10 to 30 feet above ground.
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www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12202-773...
www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12202-77390--,00.html
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Virginia's Wildlife and Boating Agency. ... The mourning dove is one of the most abundant and widely distributed game birds in North America. The breeding range of the mourning dove extends from southern Canada, throughout the United States and into Mexico.
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www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/dove/mourning-dove-proje...
www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/dove/mourning-dove-project-report.asp
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