How funny, just a few minutes ago I noticed a mourning dove streaking over my yard and took a second to appreciate how streamlined and graceful they are while flying, despite how humble and derpy they are on the ground. I love their subtle shading and calm demeanor, and they clean up spilled seed under my feeders so it doesn't attract mice. I can't believe anyone doesn't like them!
I have always felt such a great comfort and serenity when I see them. I love the markings on their wings and their heads are so cute. And you said it right…they are nostalgic and they do remind me of my childhood.
I love my mourning dove neighbors! They help wake me in the morning. They are beautiful and graceful! Their sound makes me feel connected to the planet. I love them! I didn’t know about that wing sound! Now I know. Thank-you for this great clip. ❤
I consider the dove one of the jewels of the feeders. Beautiful birds that put me in mind of the female cardinal that at first glance seem drab but the second look and add good light the are beautiful
I love mourning doves! I actually learned to do a nearly perfect imitation of their calls. (They have to be the easiest ones to imitate.) Then when I moved from Ohio to Wyoming I was dismayed to find they have a completely different call! No longer can talk to the birds! LOL. The birds are so different out here. Not as many songbirds, it seems.
Years ago we had mourning doves nest in a second story window box. It was fascinating to check on them every day until the nestlings fledged. My husband, on the other hand, was annoyed by their calls while perched on our roof peak. ("They're up there hootin' and poopin' on my roof.") As a result, we've often referred to mourning doves as hootinpoops!
They're gorgeous birds, and I loved seeing their cousins (Zenaida doves, Zenaida aurita) in the Caymans a few months ago--look very similar, but Zenaida aurita has a bit more purple. And their calls, yes, are extremely nostalgic for me, especially as I rarely see or hear them here in the city compared to the suburbs where I grew up.
While the mourning doves crowd our feeder platforms, we appreciate them and have as many as (20) at a time…we are equal opportunity citizen science birders.
Good morning 🌅 to you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. Hong Kong 🇭🇰 has Spotted Doves, and are a common sight in local parks as well as near my area by the waterfront promenade in the New Territories. They are also easily seen in Singapore 🇸🇬 and other Southeast Asia countries along with Zebra Doves. Zebra Doves range extends to Southern Thailand 🇹🇭, Tenasserim, Peninsula Malaysia 🇲🇾, and Singapore 🇸🇬 to the Indonesian 🇮🇩 island of Sumatra and Java . While Spotted Doves are common resident breeding birds across its native range in the Indian subcontinent and in East and Southeast Asia. On special occasions, while walking on hill trails, I spot the Emerald Doves. They are widespread resident breeding ‘pigeon’ native to tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Zebra Doves (love their calls!) and Spotted Doves have been very successfully introduced in Hawaii. Attempts to introduce Mourners to Hawaii were unsuccessful.
I had no idea that it was a wing whistle and not a vocalization. Learned something new! I’ll add that they have the ability to drink water like a straw and can suck water as opposed to needing to dip and lift their beak.
When I lived in an apartment complex that didn’t allow bird feeders (or flowers, or anything that inspired joy, but I digress), I used to scatter bird seed on the windowsills. The first birds to arrive were mourning doves. They learned to find me in my bedroom if I wasn’t in the kitchen where I fed them, and they would stare in at me until I got them some food. 😂 I live in a more rural area now and I don’t see or hear them as often. I miss their soft coos, their rainbow terracotta bodies, and their bright, inquisitive eyes.
Love the Mourning Dove such relaxing call and pretty too. I could call them in and it was fun. I also love the Inca Dove. So small and the feathers look like scales. They also have a pretty color.
Mourning doves are to the US as laughing doves are to the UAE, where I live, and they are definitely some of the most amazing common birds to be fond of! After all, pigeons and doves are my favorite birds of all in general!
Doves and pigeons have many good qualities. They are monogamous and mate for life. Both the male and female sit on the nest and feed their young. They are not aggressive towards other birds. I have only seen aggression when they are on the nest.
I’d happily take more of these sweet doves over the wayyy too many White-winged doves at my feeders! The WWd’s are just straight up jerks, comparatively. Thanks for highlighting this under-appreciated bird 👍
People don't hate the petite little mourning dove (one of the most widespread native birds in North America, often seen in silhouette on power lines, with a low, mournful coo). They hate rock doves (domestic pidgeons), an invasive, loud, raucous species that begs for handouts and poops all over everthing. Big difference.
No, there are people who actually don’t like Mourning Doves. “Mourning Doves make such a beautiful sound but they make such a big mess...I think that is why most people dislike them... They seem to be very easily scared away when they hear a little noise and when they do this, everything flys away....” www.gardenstew.com/threads/does-anyone-like-mourning-doves.8801/#google_vignette
Not fat. Birds have air sacs that they can fill and release to make themselves bigger and smaller at will. I have always felt like they stare into you soul when they look at you.
3: 54. Any predator being startled by the sound of a flying dove really needs to make an appointment with his counselor. Any onnithologist or birdwatcher guessing that needs to ask if he can cut in line. Sheesh. But ya, one dove used to "build" a "nest" on one slope of my roof by putting down about 20 lengths of straw in no order. No doubt no egg could be held in position for over an hour. Thanx for the dove information.
They are slightly different from the european collared dove, but everything you say about them goes for the collared doves lovely species, nostalgic cooing etc. Always have sparrows with them
We put a deer feeder beside our house. The dove get around it and it looks like the ground is moving. All the birds like it along with deer. raccoons, opossums, and squirrels. I don't have turkeys yet. They might not come close to homes? It doesn't bother the others. If anyone decides to do this buy feed corn not deer corn. Feed corn is $10 for 50 lbs. Deer corn is $18 for 40 lbs. I mix cracked corn with whole corn for the birds. Deer corn may have protein for the rack development but that will just get them killed. If dove and woodpeckers are knocking seeds out of your feeder switch to sunflower seed. That is what they want and they have to dig to find it. I switched and my problems went away.
@BadgerlandBirding A copy and paste of a comment I posted under your "Problem Birds" video. I'm an ornithologist, not a 'twitcher', so here's my perspective on Mourning Doves... Mourning Doves are the #1 game bird in the mainland US; more are legally shot annually than all species of waterfowl combined. Unlike 'upland gamebirds' (a general euphemism for galliform birds) such as non native Pheasants, Chukar, and farm reared though native Bobwhites, their population generally perpetuates itself, aided by their adaptation to synanthrophy. They thus do not introduce or repeatedly reintroduce the many pathogens that farm reared game birds spread to wild bird populations. Animal activists who promote free range poultry seem to be unaware of or uncaring about this important and almost completely overlooked issue. Same for the poultry operations that dump epizootic and enzootic deceased poultry outdoors without biosecurity precautions. State wildlife agencies that release Pheasants, Chukar, and farmed Bobwhites are conveniently silent about this issue as they earn licensing fees from shootwrs these birds. It is easier to earn federal and state allocations with media hysteria fueled campaigns to 'eradicate invasives' while pretending that they are not stocking and restocking unhealthy 'invasives' of their own for revenue. The Mourner population in our northern tier of states rears a maximum of one brood (max of two young per brood) to independence annually, but is heavily hunted, and thus depends on movement from central states for replenishment. The 'noisy' flocks of Mourners that some commenters here complain about are fall and winter social aggregations. Mourners are migratory in most of their range, and during this period, they form flocks during the day, and roost by the hundreds or thousands. Black pines, particularly Crimean Pines and Austrian Black Pines (Pinus nigra) are favored toosting sites as their sticky sap and prickly needles discourage predators. They are nearly silent during the fall and winter away from roosting sites; the whistling of their wings functions like the contact calls of passerines and waterfowl moving to and from roosts or resting sites. As they arrive at their roosts males begin calling almost nonstop until nightfall. They are still much quieter at their roosts than passerines, parrots (!) and anseriform birds at their stopover lakes. If you approach such a roost, they will explode in all directions, and won't be able to find their way in the darkness. So everyone, don't do this! Male Mourners call very persistently during most of their breeding season. Many find this annoying, but I've considered their cooing as unobtrusive but welcome outdoor background sound for most of my life. Eurasian Collared Doves (against which the also synanthropic Mourners compete very successfully), are much louder and more monotonous, as are Inca Doves and escaped domestic Ringnecks. While I love the cooing of Common Woodpigeons, Spotted Turtledoves, and Whitewing Doves, these are also much louder than Mourners and widely resented for this. Mourners are medium sized birds adapted to eat small to very small food items. This gives a misleading impression of their actual food consumption as they peck rapidly when eating at feeders for extended periods of time. Their metabolism is slower than that of passerines and psittacines, and because they rapidly swallow seeds whole (unlike nearly all other seed eating birds) they give the impression of 'hogging' feeders. Having filled their crops, they retreat to seclusion away from predators to digest their meal and generate heat against winter cold. Contrary to popular belief, Mourners are not vegetarians. They eat land isopods and small land snails for additional calcium and protein. Pairs will fight furiously for favored nesting areas. In recent years they have shifted from their usual preference for inner regions of conifers and oaks as nesting sites, to such often risky or outlandish anthropogenic places as plant baskets, car porch roof supports, and even unused cars as nesting sites. Males advertise prospective nest sites by wing twitching and uttering soft grunting nest coos. Females always make the final choice, by participating in mutual wing twitching and very soft nest cooing. In South Florida, Mourners may try to rear as many as 5 broods to independence annually. Even tropical doves don't rear 6 broods to independence annually, and a pair of Mourners that starts a 6th nest cycle anywhere in the US has encountered repeated past nesting failures. Columbiform birds are less intelligent and behaviorally simpler than passerines and psittacines, but as a group, they are among the most ecologically successful of birds, and this includes even most non synanthropic species of columbiform birds. Adaptability and ecological plasticity are far more important than intelkigence and behavioral complexity in determining evolutionary success, despite anthropocentric focus on these qualities. The failures of the Dodo and its' solitaire cousins are general failures of island evolved species that also prove that evolutionary hyperadaptation to specific habitats is easily trumped by generalist adaptation to often very different habitats by 'invasives'. Columbiform birds play essential ecological roles as primary consumers and as food for many predators. In tropical and subtropical forests members of the Treronidae are extremely important disseminators of many seeds. A pity that despite their abundant presence and symbolic familiarity, most people in the US really know nearly nothing about them, or view them with scorn. Oh, those Cooper's Hawks are really doing a number on American Kestrels in my area!
If you enjoyed this video, check out our longer species profile we did on Mourning Doves!
th-cam.com/video/nPgKHeaI5KM/w-d-xo.html
How funny, just a few minutes ago I noticed a mourning dove streaking over my yard and took a second to appreciate how streamlined and graceful they are while flying, despite how humble and derpy they are on the ground. I love their subtle shading and calm demeanor, and they clean up spilled seed under my feeders so it doesn't attract mice. I can't believe anyone doesn't like them!
Right?!?
I think they're cute too. I like taking pictures of them all puffed up.
I've always admired these peaceful, beautiful birds!
I have always loved mourning doves. I love their soft sound.
I’m glad you appreciate them!
What's not to love, eh? Never once seen a speck of hostility or aggression from a single one, urban or rural, & I was not born yesterday.
Love them! Their soft cooing is very soothing to me.
I have always felt such a great comfort and serenity when I see them. I love the markings on their wings and their heads are so cute. And you said it right…they are nostalgic and they do remind me of my childhood.
I like them. Have always enjoyed their call, which I find soothing, rather than sad.
Thank you so much for outlining the reasons you enjoy the mourning dove. 🕊
Thanks for watching!
These are a wonderful clean up crew around the feeder
Yea exactly, they are very welcomed in my area too 😊
I love my mourning dove neighbors! They help wake me in the morning. They are beautiful and graceful! Their sound makes me feel connected to the planet. I love them! I didn’t know about that wing sound! Now I know. Thank-you for this great clip. ❤
Such a pleasure to hear!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!
They are my all time favorite bird
Maybe so, maybe so. American robin? Hard call.
God made them, so they're beautiful!
Batts aren't.
I consider the dove one of the jewels of the feeders. Beautiful birds that put me in mind of the female cardinal that at first glance seem drab but the second look and add good light the are beautiful
I love them, they nib in my window, usually if the feeder is empty. lol Very relaxing watching them.
Mourning doves are so sweet and beautiful ❤ One of my favorites for sure.
I love mourning doves! I actually learned to do a nearly perfect imitation of their calls. (They have to be the easiest ones to imitate.) Then when I moved from Ohio to Wyoming I was dismayed to find they have a completely different call! No longer can talk to the birds! LOL. The birds are so different out here. Not as many songbirds, it seems.
Yeah the west and the east are totally different communities!
I love my mourning doves
They’re the best!
I love the way they tilt their heads to look at me. I call it the “mourning dove look.” So cute!
I get excited whenever I see them. I love their fluffy cheeks
Years ago we had mourning doves nest in a second story window box. It was fascinating to check on them every day until the nestlings fledged. My husband, on the other hand, was annoyed by their calls while perched on our roof peak. ("They're up there hootin' and poopin' on my roof.") As a result, we've often referred to mourning doves as hootinpoops!
@@JoJoDoxieMom haha that’s funny!
They're gorgeous birds, and I loved seeing their cousins (Zenaida doves, Zenaida aurita) in the Caymans a few months ago--look very similar, but Zenaida aurita has a bit more purple. And their calls, yes, are extremely nostalgic for me, especially as I rarely see or hear them here in the city compared to the suburbs where I grew up.
Gorgeous is 100% correct. Absolutely, by every criteria.
i love them
Thank you !!!
You're welcome!
I've rescued them! I've even saved one with a broken wing. I love them.
I love mourning doves and I can't wait to hearing them again in the spring
they are welcomed to my window ledge feeder, five feet away where I am sitting.
Who could dislike them? ❤
I love mourning doves! Subtle beauty.
They are best and lovey and good sign ❤️❤️❤️
While the mourning doves crowd our feeder platforms, we appreciate them and have as many as (20) at a time…we are equal opportunity citizen science birders.
Excellent. THANK YOU! Love 'em!
I love these guys, and learned how to whistle through my hands so I could call them. They're awesome!
The cooing is very nostalgic. Reminds me of being a young kid playing golf with my Grandpa in the early morning.
Mourning doves are my favorite non water bird
Love their call
Especially when waking up in a summer morning
I love them. Love their curvy body with small head 😊
I always find them graceful and laid back.
Good morning 🌅 to you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. Hong Kong 🇭🇰 has Spotted Doves, and are a common sight in local parks as well as near my area by the waterfront promenade in the New Territories. They are also easily seen in Singapore 🇸🇬 and other Southeast Asia countries along with Zebra Doves.
Zebra Doves range extends to Southern Thailand 🇹🇭, Tenasserim, Peninsula Malaysia 🇲🇾, and Singapore 🇸🇬 to the Indonesian 🇮🇩 island of Sumatra and Java .
While Spotted Doves are common resident breeding birds across its native range in the Indian subcontinent and in East and Southeast Asia.
On special occasions, while walking on hill trails, I spot the Emerald Doves. They are widespread resident breeding ‘pigeon’ native to tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Zebra Doves (love their calls!) and Spotted Doves have been very successfully introduced in Hawaii. Attempts to introduce Mourners to Hawaii were unsuccessful.
I like these birds
i love hearing their call
I had no idea that it was a wing whistle and not a vocalization. Learned something new!
I’ll add that they have the ability to drink water like a straw and can suck water as opposed to needing to dip and lift their beak.
Glad we could enlighten you on the wing whistle! Have never heard of the drinking thing
When I lived in an apartment complex that didn’t allow bird feeders (or flowers, or anything that inspired joy, but I digress), I used to scatter bird seed on the windowsills. The first birds to arrive were mourning doves. They learned to find me in my bedroom if I wasn’t in the kitchen where I fed them, and they would stare in at me until I got them some food. 😂 I live in a more rural area now and I don’t see or hear them as often. I miss their soft coos, their rainbow terracotta bodies, and their bright, inquisitive eyes.
Love the Mourning Dove such relaxing call and pretty too. I could call them in and it was fun. I also love the Inca Dove. So small and the feathers look like scales. They also have a pretty color.
"This cactus seems nice!" 🤣
You are so right in your description of their questionable nests.
They certainly snoozed their way thru Nest Building 101.
People hate them?! 🥺My husband and I adore them, we lovingly call them our "potatoes"
thank you
They ARE cute! One of my son could imitate the cooing sounds perfectly.
Mourning doves are to the US as laughing doves are to the UAE, where I live, and they are definitely some of the most amazing common birds to be fond of! After all, pigeons and doves are my favorite birds of all in general!
I love them
And they taste great!
Doves and pigeons have many good qualities. They are monogamous and mate for life. Both the male and female sit on the nest and feed their young. They are not aggressive towards other birds. I have only seen aggression when they are on the nest.
Could use a tutorial on next building though
Well, the people who find a mourning dove dislikable are likely a lot more dislikable as a person.
I have seen very few ‘mysteries’ without the occasional background mourning dove call…
Mourning Doves are also a dime a dozen in my country.
I’d happily take more of these sweet doves over the wayyy too many White-winged doves at my feeders! The WWd’s are just straight up jerks, comparatively. Thanks for highlighting this under-appreciated bird 👍
People don't hate the petite little mourning dove (one of the most widespread native birds in North America, often seen in silhouette on power lines, with a low, mournful coo). They hate rock doves (domestic pidgeons), an invasive, loud, raucous species that begs for handouts and poops all over everthing. Big difference.
No, there are people who actually don’t like Mourning Doves.
“Mourning Doves make such a beautiful sound but they make such a big mess...I think that is why most people dislike them... They seem to be very easily scared away when they hear a little noise and when they do this, everything flys away....”
www.gardenstew.com/threads/does-anyone-like-mourning-doves.8801/#google_vignette
I think the people who dislike mourning doves mistakenly associate them with common pigeons.
Huh? Nobody can hate mourning doves...impossible! I love their crazy non-nests.
Not fat. Birds have air sacs that they can fill and release to make themselves bigger and smaller at will. I have always felt like they stare into you soul when they look at you.
I don’t have them at my feeders in SW OK. I have white-winged doves. 🤷🏻♂️
Fat, lazy and greedy? I only know one species like that and it doesn’t fly.
Squirrels 😬 just kidding
@ 🤣
3: 54. Any predator being startled by the sound of a flying dove really needs to make an appointment with his counselor.
Any onnithologist or birdwatcher guessing that needs to ask if he can cut in line.
Sheesh.
But ya, one dove used to "build" a "nest" on one slope of my roof by putting down about 20 lengths of straw in no order. No doubt no egg could be held in position for over an hour.
Thanx for the dove information.
They are slightly different from the european collared dove, but everything you say about them goes for the collared doves lovely species, nostalgic cooing etc. Always have sparrows with them
We put a deer feeder beside our house. The dove get around it and it looks like the ground is moving. All the birds like it along with deer. raccoons, opossums, and squirrels. I don't have turkeys yet. They might not come close to homes? It doesn't bother the others. If anyone decides to do this buy feed corn not deer corn. Feed corn is $10 for 50 lbs. Deer corn is $18 for 40 lbs. I mix cracked corn with whole corn for the birds. Deer corn may have protein for the rack development but that will just get them killed.
If dove and woodpeckers are knocking seeds out of your feeder switch to sunflower seed. That is what they want and they have to dig to find it. I switched and my problems went away.
I listened closely but I am not convinced. Just kidding, mourning doves are lovable (and delicious).
Mourning doves can be realitivly aggressive at feeders, but when a white wing dove gang pulls up they find their place pretty quickly.
Who hates mourning doves? At least they're quiet and soft spoken, unlike mocking birds! And they aren't dirty like those pigeons and sea gulls.
Everybody in my 'hood likes them. People who don't must be the same type of people who kick teddy bears!
I was of the impression they were Abundant in SouthCentral South America??
Their range ends right about where South American begins
@@BadgerlandBirding Okay, so what species of doves in Cordoba Argentina?
@ appears to be the Eared Dove which looks incredibly similar!
@@BadgerlandBirding Ha! Must have a keen eye to tell them on the fly! Thanks
Idk anyone who hates mourning doves. Maybe some dislike them because they think they’re pigeons.
You should make a video about Mike Tyson and his love for birds. They're the whole reason he started boxing. (Pigeons)
And Nikola Tesla 🕊👀
was this video made by a mourning dove?
Yes. Are you impressed?
@@BadgerlandBirding cooo
@@Quiestre next video: Why you’re not feeding your Mourning Doves enough food
@BadgerlandBirding A copy and paste of a comment I posted under your "Problem Birds" video. I'm an ornithologist, not a 'twitcher', so here's my perspective on Mourning Doves...
Mourning Doves are the #1 game bird in the mainland US; more are legally shot annually than all species of waterfowl combined. Unlike 'upland gamebirds' (a general euphemism for galliform birds) such as non native Pheasants, Chukar, and farm reared though native Bobwhites, their population generally perpetuates itself, aided by their adaptation to synanthrophy. They thus do not introduce or repeatedly reintroduce the many pathogens that farm reared game birds spread to wild bird populations. Animal activists who promote free range poultry seem to be unaware of or uncaring about this important and almost completely overlooked issue. Same for the poultry operations that dump epizootic and enzootic deceased poultry outdoors without biosecurity precautions. State wildlife agencies that release Pheasants, Chukar, and farmed Bobwhites are conveniently silent about this issue as they earn licensing fees from shootwrs these birds. It is easier to earn federal and state allocations with media hysteria fueled campaigns to 'eradicate invasives' while pretending that they are not stocking and restocking unhealthy 'invasives' of their own for revenue.
The Mourner population in our northern tier of states rears a maximum of one brood (max of two young per brood) to independence annually, but is heavily hunted, and thus depends on movement from central states for replenishment.
The 'noisy' flocks of Mourners that some commenters here complain about are fall and winter social aggregations. Mourners are migratory in most of their range, and during this period, they form flocks during the day, and roost by the hundreds or thousands. Black pines, particularly Crimean Pines and Austrian Black Pines (Pinus nigra) are favored toosting sites as their sticky sap and prickly needles discourage predators. They are nearly silent during the fall and winter away from roosting sites; the whistling of their wings functions like the contact calls of passerines and waterfowl moving to and from roosts or resting sites. As they arrive at their roosts males begin calling almost nonstop until nightfall. They are still much quieter at their roosts than passerines, parrots (!) and anseriform birds at their stopover lakes. If you approach such a roost, they will explode in all directions, and won't be able to find their way in the darkness. So everyone, don't do this!
Male Mourners call very persistently during most of their breeding season. Many find this annoying, but I've considered their cooing as unobtrusive but welcome outdoor background sound for most of my life. Eurasian Collared Doves (against which the also synanthropic Mourners compete very successfully), are much louder and more monotonous, as are Inca Doves and escaped domestic Ringnecks. While I love the cooing of Common Woodpigeons, Spotted Turtledoves, and Whitewing Doves, these are also much louder than Mourners and widely resented for this.
Mourners are medium sized birds adapted to eat small to very small food items. This gives a misleading impression of their actual food consumption as they peck rapidly when eating at feeders for extended periods of time. Their metabolism is slower than that of passerines and psittacines, and because they rapidly swallow seeds whole (unlike nearly all other seed eating birds) they give the impression of 'hogging' feeders. Having filled their crops, they retreat to seclusion away from predators to digest their meal and generate heat against winter cold.
Contrary to popular belief, Mourners are not vegetarians. They eat land isopods and small land snails for additional calcium and protein. Pairs will fight furiously for favored nesting areas. In recent years they have shifted from their usual preference for inner regions of conifers and oaks as nesting sites, to such often risky or outlandish anthropogenic places as plant baskets, car porch roof supports, and even unused cars as nesting sites. Males advertise prospective nest sites by wing twitching and uttering soft grunting nest coos. Females always make the final choice, by participating in mutual wing twitching and very soft nest cooing. In South Florida, Mourners may try to rear as many as 5 broods to independence annually. Even tropical doves don't rear 6 broods to independence annually, and a pair of Mourners that starts a 6th nest cycle anywhere in the US has encountered repeated past nesting failures.
Columbiform birds are less intelligent and behaviorally simpler than passerines and psittacines, but as a group, they are among the most ecologically successful of birds, and this includes even most non synanthropic species of columbiform birds. Adaptability and ecological plasticity are far more important than intelkigence and behavioral complexity in determining evolutionary success, despite anthropocentric focus on these qualities. The failures of the Dodo and its' solitaire cousins are general failures of island evolved species that also prove that evolutionary hyperadaptation to specific habitats is easily trumped by generalist adaptation to often very different habitats by 'invasives'.
Columbiform birds play essential ecological roles as primary consumers and as food for many predators. In tropical and subtropical forests members of the Treronidae are extremely important disseminators of many seeds. A pity that despite their abundant presence and symbolic familiarity, most people in the US really know nearly nothing about them, or view them with scorn.
Oh, those Cooper's Hawks are really doing a number on American Kestrels in my area!
So being fat is worse than being a bully?
That’s the joke….
?? Porquê pomba de luto ??
They poop large all over bird feeders. That's why I don't like them.