Baby Mourning Doves, like all baby doves, eat a substance created by their parents called "crop milk", which is basically somewhat pre-digested seeds. Yum.
Mourning doves eat a wide variety of food, live in many different habitats, and reproduce quickly.
Ever chance they get.
mourning doves live in trees.
Mourning doves would be a bit big for screech owls, and they usually focus on insects, reptiles, and small mammals. But if given the opportunity, I imagine that one might take on and eat a mourning dove, particularly if it is injured.
My grandma has mourning doves in her backyard at 90*F weather.
Mourning doves get their name from their mournful or lamenting cooing sounds. This mournful vocalization is where their common name "mourning dove" comes from.
There is only one mourning dove, but there are 289 species of pigeons and doves in the world.
Mourning doves are basically seed eaters, and take corn, sunflower, millet, weed seeds.
Seeds lots and lots of SEEDS!
Yes, the mourning and white winged doves in particular.
Mourning doves do not migrate per se, but birds in Canada move southwards to Norhern U.S. in winter.
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