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Mourning dove

Zenaida macroura

Description:

This guy couldnt fly very well. He kept hitting parked cars.

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4 Comments

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Parents should be around somewhere. Doves are doting parents. I had found a fledgling in a similar location.Since I was told that it would spend another week on the ground before flying off ,I took it to" Lindsay museum Of wild life." They treated him for an injured leg with antibiotics and then after a month released him back with another Dove in a reserve.
To this day I am wondering if I made the right decision of picking up and taking him to the hospital. His parents waited for two full days for him to return.
This year they did not build a nest in the same tree which was right next to a road.
But chances of him surviving could have been like 40 % in that location what with cats and dogs and cars.

Thanks Gord

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

fledgling.

Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 12 years ago

I think this is a young mourning dove (Zenaida macroura), not a turtle dove which is an old world dove. Probably why it isn't flying very well, still learning how.

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on May 22, 2011
Submitted on May 22, 2011

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