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Two Mourning Doves on a Gray Morning with Squirrel Watching - Zenaida macroura Royalty Free Stock Photo

Two Mourning Doves on a Gray Morning - Zenaida macroura Royalty Free Stock Photo

Three Mourning Doves on a Gray Morning - Zenaida macroura Royalty Free Stock Photo

Two Turtle Doves Perched on a Branch Royalty Free Stock Photo

Two Turtle Doves or Mourning Doves Royalty Free Stock Photo

Two Mourning Doves on a Gray Morning - Zenaida macroura

Two Mourning Dove on the roof Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pair of Mourning Dove birds perched on a branch Royalty Free Stock Photo

The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove, the rain dove, and colloquially as the turtle dove, and was once known as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove. This species' call is a distinctive, plaintive cooOOoo-woo-woo-woooo, uttered by males to attract females. Mourning doves are light grey and brown and generally muted in color. Males and females are similar in appearance. The species is generally monogamous, with two squabs (young) per brood. Both parents incubate and care for the young. Mourning doves eat almost exclusively seeds, but the young are fed crop milk by their parents.