Mourning Dove Images, Facts and Information:
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- Mourning Doves are medium sized doves with gray-brown upperparts, pinkish underparts, they have black eyes with light blue orbital rings, long, slender pointed tails, black spots on their wings, and dark bills.
- Some Mourning Doves are migratory, the majority are non-migratory.
- Mourning Doves can be found in open fields, parks, yards, deserts, grasslands, woodlots and agricultural fields. They can be found from southeastern Alaska south to Mexico.
- The diet of Mourning Doves is primarily seeds though they also consume grains, fruits, insects and leafy vegetation.
- Mourning Doves lay 2 eggs which hatch in 14 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous. Females do “dump” their eggs in other Mourning Dove nests and nests with more than two eggs are usually the result of this “dumping”.
- A group of doves can be called a “flight”, “cote”, “dole” and “bevy” of doves.
- The oldest known wild Mourning Dove was just over 30 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Mourning Dove photos.
Curbside Mourning Dove adult
Title: Curbside Mourning Dove adult
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/3/2024
Urban male Mourning Dove on a cold morning
Title: Urban male Mourning Dove on a cold morning
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 10/29/2023
Chilly Mourning Dove foraging in early morning
Title: Chilly Mourning Dove foraging in early morning
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 10/29/2023
Urban Mourning Dove foraging on a cold morning
Title: Urban Mourning Dove foraging on a cold morning
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 10/29/2023
Morning Mourning Dove on a boulder
Title: Morning Mourning Dove on a boulder
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2023
Male Mourning Dove at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Male Mourning Dove at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2023
Mourning Dove in a light breeze
Title: Mourning Dove in a light breeze
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/24/2021
Male Mourning Dove perched on a gnarly fence post
Title: Male Mourning Dove perched on a gnarly fence post
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/24/2021
Mourning Dove on a breezy morning
Title: Mourning Dove on a breezy morning
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/24/2021
Adult Mourning Dove on an old fence rail
Title: Adult Mourning Dove on an old fence rail
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2022
Mourning Dove on an old lichen encrusted fence
Title: Mourning Dove on an old lichen encrusted fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2022
Pair of Mourning Doves on lichen covered rocks
Title: Pair of Mourning Doves on lichen covered rocks
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/30/2022
Male Mourning Dove in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Male Mourning Dove in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2021
Male Mourning Dove perched on a barbed wire fence
Title: Male Mourning Dove perched on a barbed wire fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2020
Mourning Dove male in July
Title: Mourning Dove male in July
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2020
Male Mourning Dove on a summer morning
Title: Male Mourning Dove on a summer morning
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2020
Immature Mourning Dove at a pumpkin patch
Title: Immature Mourning Dove at a pumpkin patch
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/8/2018
West Desert Mourning Dove
Title: West Desert Mourning Dove
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/10/2017
Perched Mourning Dove in morning light
Title: Perched Mourning Dove in morning light
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/18/2016
Pair of Mourning Doves
Title: Pair of Mourning Doves
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2016