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Mourning Dove
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Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
(credit: Alvin E. Staffan—The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers)
Species (Zenaida macroura) of pigeon (family Columbidae), the common wild pigeon of North America. They have long, pointed tails, and the sides of the neck are violet and pink. Their name comes from their call's haunting, mournful tone. Mourning doves are migratory; the northernmost populations migrate the farthest south. They are popular game birds. See also dove.

Mourning Dove (b. Humishima or Christine Quintasket) (1888–1936) Okanogan/Colville writer, activist; born in Bonner's Ferry, Ida. A migrant worker in Washington most of her adult life, she wrote one of the few early novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927), as well as Coyote Stories (1933). She also cofounded the Colville Indian Council (1930) and in 1935 became the first woman elected to the Colville Tribal Council.
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January Birdies by Jean Woods / Pets and Animals community
Delving deeply into the details of birds ranging from the Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), the Red-Eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus), and the Mourning Dove (Zenaida macoura), to the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), the Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), and forty-five others, Fifty Common Birds Of The Upper Midwest provides readers with a remarkable coverage of the birds routinely observed in the multistate area.
Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest by Bethany, Susan / Reviewer's Bookwatch
During the day the mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) kept feeding from the bird feeder droppings on the ground by the woodpile under our deck.
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