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Mourning Dove
Description: The most abundant dove in the United States, the Mourning Dove is a popular game birn as well as songbird. When they fly, they flap their wings constantly and create a whistle as the air passes through the wing feathers. Like other doves and pigeons the mourning dove jerks its head with each step when it walks.
The Mourning Dove, found across the United States and southern Canada, is most common throughout the Great Plains and the Midwest.
Other Names: American Mourning Dove (also formerly known as the Carolina Pigeon or Carolina Turtledove)
Color: Mourning Doves are small, thin doves light gray, brownish and generally muted in color. They have a small head and a long, pointed tail. The outer tail feathers have white tips with black marking midway, so that the tail is edged with a black-and-white stripe. Their fawn-colored wings are spotted black. The Mourning Dove's crown, nape and hind neck are slate colored, the face is pinkish-buff, and the belly is buff-colored. Legs are red and the eye has a bluish ring of bare skin with a small black spot. Males are slightly larger and more colorful, with a bluish crown and pink chest.while the females have browner coloring overall.
Sound: The Mourning Dove’s song is often mistaken for that of an owl. It is a plaintive “cooh, woo-woo-woo.” In flight, the bird’s wings make a fluttery whistling sound.
Preferred Environment: Habitat preferences include various open and semi-open environments, in agricultural and urban areas, open woods, deserts, forest edges, cities and suburbs. The Mourning Dove has adapted well to areas altered by humans.
Nesting Habits: During nest-building, the female Mourning Dove stays at the nest while the male collects sticks. He stands on her back to give her the nest material and she takes it and weaves it into the nest. The nest is usually a flimsy platform of twigs, pine needles or grass stems. The Mourning Dove has been known to nest in trees, tangles of shrubs or vines up to 50 feet, and sometimes in hanging flower pots or other man-made structures.
Food Preference: The Mourning Dove's natural foods are a variety of seeds, cracked corn, and insects.
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How to Attract Mourning Doves
Mourning Doves natural foods are a wide variety of wild seeds, grains and insects. They often feed on grain in open fields and croplands. They will be seen at feeders in larger numbers when the ground is covered in deep snow.
Like other songbirds, food, water and cover will attract them to your yard. Your feeders should contain an offering with cracked corn, millet, and other seeds to attract Mourning Doves. Doves are ground feeders, so tray feeders are best.
Birdbaths will attract them and running or dripping water or fountains will attract more birds. You are also likely to see more birds if you provide trees and shrubs for cover.
Suggested Mourning Dove Feeders
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