Seeds lots and lots of SEEDS!
Why would you want to keep them away???
Small white eggs can come from mourning doves or some sort of woodpecker.
because they want to is that a problem
Doves and pigeons sometimes take a cycle to learn how to be parents. It is not uncommon for a first brood of eggs to be lost. She will figure it out and do better next year.
The pigeon is technically a type of bird known as a rock dove. There are several species of doves that are tan in color, but the most common is the mourning dove.
Mourning doves eat a wide variety of food, live in many different habitats, and reproduce quickly.
Ever chance they get.
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 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.
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.
coopers hawk