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Mourning dove

Zenaida macroura

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat seeds, insects and snails. The young eat crop milk.
•Their main predators are birds of prey. Corvids, grackles, cats and rat snakes eat their eggs.
•It's one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds.

Habitat:

Urban areas, farms, prairie, grassland, lighty wooded areas
-I saw this dove in Naperville (USA)

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PublishedApril 4, 2016

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