Highly tolerant of humans, they will gather at the feet of anyone providing seeds or bread and will even eat from the hand. They come in a wide variety of plumages but most have whitish rumps and two dark bars on the wing. It is from rock pigeons that the famous “homing pigeons” and “carrier […]
Mourning doves travel in flocks, breaking rank only to nest and raise young. Males defend their mates as a kind of mobile territory, defending her and the immediate nest site—but not much else—from other birds. The slender brown shape of the mourning dove, with its long tapered tail, is a familiar sight all across North
Compared to mourning doves, Eurasian collared-doves are larger and much paler. Collared-doves get their name from the prominent black stripe across the back of the neck, highlighted by thin white stripes above and below the “collar.”Eurasian collared-doves’ three-note coo-COO-coo calls are lower in pitch than a mourning dove, and are usually repeated several times in succession. Listen
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