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Sigh. Do you hear that? It’s the melancholy song of the Mourning Dove. To human ears, their low, slow calls (coo-OO-oo) sound like a lament, a universal sound of loss or regret.
These doves may be a common sight (there are 350 million of them in the U.S.), but their genteel looks and emotive coos have made them beloved to many. They can both be seen on high — perched on fences, church towers, and telephone poles — as well as down low, foraging on the ground for dropped seeds.
Mourning Doves can store up to 17,000 seeds in their crop, or an expansion of the esophagus; they eat up to 20 percent of their body weight every day! You can put up a nesting cone to attract mating pairs, or scatter millet seeds in your yard.
Fun fact: When Mourning Doves take off for flight, their wings make a sharp whistling sound.
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Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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