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White-winged Dove |
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Zenaida asiatica |
| Description: 12" A brownish gray dove with blackish wings that have a broad diagonal bar; rounded tail has whitish corners, noticeable in flight | Habitat: . Deserts, desert scrubland, mesquite, dry woodlands, agricultural areas, residential areas, wooded areas along streams, citrus groves. |
| Nesting: 2 cream puff eggs on a frail platform of loose twigs in low bushes | Range: breeds in southwest US and southern Texas, winters south of border, small numbers in Florida |
| Voice: drawn out booo-hooo ho-hooo or who cooks for you | Diet: fruit, waste grain from cultivated fields, cactus fruit, berries, acorns. Young fed crop milk, plus seeds after 4 days |
| Notes: Gregarious, feeding in large flocks, especially after breeding; roosts in nesting trees, desert populations rely largely on cactus fruit for water. |
| When present in Oklahoma: occasional visitor to south, southwest part of state |
Note: First sighting in
Lancaster, MN (Kittson County) made and photographed by Larry Wilebski on
May 5, 2007
