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.
Male Mourning Dove about to take flight
Title: Male Mourning Dove about to take flight
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2016
Mourning Dove on a lichen covered boulder
Title: Mourning Dove on a lichen covered boulder
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2016
Box Elder County Mourning Dove male
Title: Box Elder County Mourning Dove male
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2016
Mourning Dove close up
Title: Mourning Dove close up
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/9/2016
Juvenile Mourning Dove in morning light
Title: Juvenile Mourning Dove in morning light
Location: Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2015
An adult Mourning Dove on barbed wire
Title: An adult Mourning Dove on barbed wire
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/24/2015
Mourning Dove perched on a dying greasewood
Title: Mourning Dove perched on a dying greasewood
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2015
Mourning Dove perched on an old fence post
Title: Mourning Dove perched on an old fence post
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/21/2015
Mourning Dove in the Stansbury Mountains
Title: Mourning Dove in the Stansbury Mountains
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/21/2015
Mourning Dove in morning light
Title: Mourning Dove in morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/21/2015
Mourning Dove
Title: Mourning Dove
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/24/2013
Mourning Dove wing lift
Title: Mourning Dove wing lift
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2010
Mourning Dove stretching
Title: Mourning Dove stretching
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2010
Mourning Dove on the beach
Title: Mourning Dove on the beach
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/24/2009
Mourning Dove perched in a pine
Title: Mourning Dove perched in a pine
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 11/18/2008
Mourning Dove resting in the grass
Title: Mourning Dove resting in the grass
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/1/2008
Mourning Dove portrait
Title: Mourning Dove portrait
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/23/2008