Mourning Doves

Mourning Doves

     Mourning Doves can be found almost anywhere around us in the U.S. With an outstanding 350 million soaring the skies and roaming the ground they are least concerned even while 20 million of them are being hunted every year. As a member of the Columbidae family Mourning Doves mostly eat seeds such as corn, millet, safflower, and sunflower seeds which makes up 99 percent of their diet.

Mourning doves migration differs from other birds because of their order. First the young leaves first, second the females, last of all the males. Not all of the males migrate some of them decide to stay in the North. Mourning birds Use the Coo sound howl to verify many things, to look for mate, claiming territory, and raising the young. The Mourning Dove can be found almost anywhere in the U.S. and are easily spotted with their Brown and Tank colored feathers which highly differs

from the Rock Pigeon.