What is a mourning dove?
Mourning Dove ( Zenaida Macroura ) is a dove with a large range. Five subspecies of these doves can be found from South America to Canada. Mourning doves are easily recognized by their somewhat mourning calls, inspiring their name. They can be known for their alternative names such as the American Morning Dove, Carolina Turtledove or Carolina Pigeon. The bird has a distinctive pigeon look with a small rounded head, a thin body and brown and gray. The average size is about 12 inches (30.48 cm) in length at maturity. The population of the mourning dove remained relative, although it was hunted. Our world inhabits about 130 million sadness. Part of the counterweight for hunting is that the mourning dove regularly complements its population. In a warmer climate, the dove can have up to six pups a year.
Although it would seem that this extensive amount of reproduction increases the population rapidly annually, it is not. For the sadness of Dove Younglings there is a high rate of mortality; Are easy prey for predatory animalsATA and can get sick of illness at the beginning of life. About 70% die before maturity. Furthermore, where they are hunted, parents can be easily shot, so not let anyone take care of young chickens. In fact, there is no season when the sadness of the dove does not have to actively care for young, so avoiding the shooting of the mother and the father of the birds hunters is difficult.
The pigeon is usually fine and the mourning dove is no exception. When the pair of dove gather to join, they indicate their affection by cleaning each other (preeening). The man allows his friend to choose a nesting place.
Some nests can be stolen from other birds or are abandoned nests of squirrels. Some strange council nests of the dove was discovered in including pots and buildings. These beautiful creatures have adapted very well to the human intrusion into their territory and can be found in both urban and rural environments.
Baby sadness dove is impressively attractive and very helpless. Parents have to feedt young and began to introduce part of their main diet seeds after about 10-15 days. Smurci doves rarely eat mistakes or crustaceans of any kind, most prefer small seeds, such as millet, lights and sunflowers. If you have a sad dove in your area, you can attract them well using a birdfeeder containing some of them.
Mourning Dove is often considered a harmless bird, and that is true. His silent call and a gentle rhythm of the wings are sounds that many evoke peace. The bird is a symbol of peace in Wisconsin and Michigan. Many of them connect the dove not only as a symbol of peace, but also as a representative symbol of the Holy Spirit.