Species: Zenaida macroura
Mourning Dove
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Zenaida
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Paloma Huilota - tourterelle triste
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Columbiformes - Columbidae - Zenaida - constitute a superspecies (AOU 1998).
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A bird (dove).
Migration
true - true - true - Doves banded west of the Continental Divide in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico were recovered primarily south and west of banding areas (34% in Mexico), and recoveries west of the Divide came primarily from bandings west of the main north-south mountain ranges; the cordilleras forming the Divide appear to be impediments to east-west migration (Braun 1979).
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
true
Food Comments
About 98% of diet is seeds (Terres 1980). Diet includes a wide variety of wild seeds as well as waste grain (wheat, corn, rye, oats, etc), also some insects. Individuals may fly long distances to water. Feeding occurs mostly on the ground.
Reproduction Comments
Protracted breeding season. Clutch size is usually 2. Incubation lasts 13-15 days, by both sexes (male diurnally). Young are fed by at least one parent for 27 days (mainly by male after 16 days). Individual pairs may raise 2-5 broods/year. Pair bond usually is life-long.
Ecology Comments
This species forms small to large flocks in the nonbreeding season.
Length
31
Weight
123
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2009-03-24
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-27
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Breeding range extends from southern Canada (southwestern and east-central British Columbia to soutern Quebec and Nova Scotia) south to Panama and West Indies. Winter range includes almost all of the breeding range (except notably populations in the north-central portion) and extends south to southern Baja California and throughout the remainder of Mexico (Howell and Webb 1995), and mainly along the Pacific slope of Central America south to Costa Rica and southwestern Panama (Stiles and Skutch 1989, Ridgely and Gwynne 1989).<br><br>Introduced (1960s) and established in Hawaii (near Puu Waa Waa, Hawaii).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)