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Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
29.9728, -95.5276
Field Notes
Description:
Mourning Dove has a slender tail, a head smaller than its body, and a small bill. They have a light brown to a tan color, with black spots on the wings and black-bordered white tips to the tail feathers.
Habitat:
Mourning Doves can be found almost everywhere; in bare ground, backyard when they are searching for food or on telephone wires.
Notes:
Mourning Doves' flight are fast and bullet straight with their powerful wing beats, sometimes it makes sudden ascents, descents, and dodges with their tails stretching behind them. They make a soft, drawn-out calls sound like laments.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMay 30, 2014
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