Lonesome Dove

by Dawn Currie

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Title

Lonesome Dove

Artist

Dawn Currie

Medium

Photograph - Digital

Description

From Florida Birds Collection by artist Dawn Currie - Lonesome Mourning Dove perched on a post in Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.

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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura): This medium-sized dove has gray-brown upperparts and pink-brown underparts. The eyes are dark with a small black spot beneath. It has a dark bill, gray-brown wings with black spots and dark primaries. Swift direct flight. Sexes are similar, but the male is slightly larger.

Mourning Doves tend to feed busily on the ground, swallowing seeds and storing them in an enlargement of the esophagus called the crop. Once they've filled it (the record is 17,200 bluegrass seeds in a single crop!), they can fly to a safe perch to digest the meal.

The Mourning Dove is the most widespread and abundant game bird in North America. Every year hunters harvest more than 20 million, but the Mourning Dove remains one of our most abundant birds with a U.S. population estimated at 350 million.