Birds Observed at Our Pleasant Hill, Oregon Home

Mourning Dove

Location in Oregon
Blue is Winter range
Red is Summer range
Purple is Year-round range
Yellow is Migration range

Mourning Dove range

Mourning Dove

Zenaidura macroura.

At all seasons the commonest native dove in suburbs and farmlands. Flight is swift and direct, without coasting; the whistling of the wings is diagnostic. Nests singly, feeds in flocks. We saw one at the end of our driveway. Call, a low hhhooo-hooo-hoo-hooo. Because of its size it tends to bully the other birds. But the other birds seem to be patient and wait it out.

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