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Same! This whole time I’ve lived in Wisconsin I thought they were owls hooting 😂🤣 I was born and raised in NYC and we don’t have them there so I didn’t know
I had a Mourning Dove as a pet in my youth and it was such a great experience and cemented my love of birds. Mourning Doves have so much personality! He would greet meet every morning and when I got home by flying on my head, he would preen my hair for hours during my gaming or TV time and just sit and be content. He even had a bed time and would walk himself to bed on my chair in my bedroom on his own, cooing to me that he was going to sleep. Playful like a dog and just a genuine joy to be around. Miss him every day but it was a core memory having him as a pet.
Their mourning sounds calm me down. It's relaxing. They do it outside my house everyday by my window on the roof. Even more so before the sun goes down.
Mourning doves will come to your bird feeders like a... let's say "generously proportioned" person will come to a Golden Corral buffet restaurant, and they will sit there and eat and eat and eat, and THEN sit in the feeders, or on the ground or in a tree like a family that just came out of Cracker Barrel and just sits on the rockers talking and digesting.
The thing that always would get me is how they would rest and sometimes nap on our back lawn. Almost like a lunch invitation for a cat. Get up in the branches bird!
I love doves too. I always noted that head bob and wondered why they did that, then I found out they have an organ in their heads that, when they bob their heads, lets them determine how far away what they're looking at is. Since their eyes are on the sides of their heads, they don't have depth perception, except via that head bob.
In my current town, we get these guys year-round. They don’t even migrate. They’re just chilling on power lines in the dead of winter, somehow tolerating the intense cold and snow. I wish i had the tolerance they have lol. I have also seen them instinctively fly away when a falcon flew towards the power line they were sitting on.
animal calls are not just for mating. they declare territory, communicate presence to current mate/offpsring, and probably express emotion and other forms of communication that are either human or unimaginable to humans :)
Mourning Doves are the first birds to start singing before spring in my area. Late February is when I normally start hearing the males singing their cooing call. The only other bird that I hear singing is the Carolina Wren, which is a year-round singer. Another member of the Pigeon/Dove family native to North America you should do a video on is either the Band-tail Pigeon or the White-crowned Pigeon.
in my yard we have some Mourning Doves sometimes and they sound Beautiful when they make their Mourning sound and my mom also goes out to the Bird feeder so she can feed them seed Bird seed
Got a pair nesting on my balcony in a pot next to a plant. Fingers crossed they're successful. If all goes well, I'll set aside a nesting area for them to use next season.
I like to call them daily doves. Morning noon or night. I once heard one at 2 AM. You hear them every day year round. The mellow coo comes thru the body not the beak. A natural low pass filter.
Where I live, mourning doves abound, and everything you say is true. I did get my bubble busted about them, though, they are very territorial, especially during mating season and they will fight.
Actually 'saw' one get grabbed by a hawk or such. It was standing in the middle of the yard and i thought it was dumb since it was so vulnerable then I looked away for like 4 seconds looked back to see a hawk holding it down then it flew off with it.
This is my favorite wild bird to hunt. You can kill multiple in a grouping with good bird shot and the meat tastes amazing wrapped in bacon and jalapeños.
