Inca Dove Images

Inca Dove Images, Facts and Information:

Columbina inca

• Inca Doves are small, slender doves with pale gray-brown bodies, scaly-looking feathers, long tails, and reddish underwings. Males and females look similar.
• Inca Doves are year-round residents in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of Central America. Their range has been expanding northward in recent decades.
• Inca Doves thrive in a variety of open habitats including urban areas, parks, gardens, farmyards, roadsides, and desert scrub with scattered trees or shrubs.
• Inca Doves primarily eat seeds from grasses and other plants, occasionally consuming small insects.
• Inca Doves typically lay 2 eggs which hatch in about 14 days. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the young. They are monogamous and may breed year-round in warmer areas.
• Inca Doves are sometimes called “Mexican Doves” or “Scaled Doves” due to their scaly appearance.
• A group of doves can be called a “dule”, “flight”, “piteousness”, or “cote” of doves.
• The oldest known Inca Dove was at least 13 years, 3 months old.

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