Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of dove, in the family Columbidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 58 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is at once one of the most abundant birds in North America, with some three hundred million individuals, and the game bird shot in the greatest numbers on the continent: more than twenty million are taken a year without the population suffering.
From Mourning Dove
It feeds its chicks on crop milk, a secretion rich in fat and protein that both parents produce in the lining of the crop, a trait unique to pigeons among birds.
From Mourning Dove
It can drink by sucking with its bill submerged, without needing to raise its head to swallow as almost all birds do, which lets it drink in a few seconds and reduce its exposure to predators.
From Mourning Dove
After being introduced accidentally to the Bahamas in the 1970s it spread across almost all of North America within a few more decades.
It eats seeds, grain and scraps, often around people.
It lays 2 eggs to a clutch, one noticeably larger than the other.