Mourning Doves Nesting Video
In springtime mated doves prepare a nest where incubation takes place.
Mourning doves nesting video. The male looks for a strategic place where there s plenty of food then invites the female to form a lifetime bond. Mourning dove family part 2 hatching and raising young part 2 of a two part educational series about the nesting behavior of mourning doves. See our video shot over the span of a month during the spring of 2018 documenting a pair of mourning doves who built a nest in one of our hanging baskets in our backyard. Nesting habits of the mourning dove.
The construction of the nest takes about 10 hours total with the doves working together over the course of 2 4 days. A soft spot with a few sticks is a fancy birdhouse for a mourning dove. This video records the hatching of baby mourning doves from eggs all the way to the birds leaving nest. It always amazes me where a bird may decide to build a nest and these birds are no exception.
The mourning doves coo may sound sad but bird watchers know that it signals the beginning of this birds habits of nesting claiming territory and raising young. The male and female dove cooperate in nest building and brooding. The male brings twigs grass stems and pine needles to the female. Follow our mourning dove pair ward and june as.
According to the wild bird watching site their mortality rate is 75 percent in their first year. The mourning doves coo begins season of nesting and feeding. Because once the eggs hatch baby doves squabs become easy victims of extreme weather and natural predation. The nest is usually poorly constructed although both sexes of the mourning dove are involved in making it the male gathers the twigs grass and pine needles and takes it to the female who stays on the nest while she is building it.
Mourning dove nesting habits lead to nests on horizontal branches of evergreen and orchard trees on man made structures such as porch eaves and on the ground. The whole process actually took more than a month during which the mom was guarding the. An average size of a mourning dove is about 9 14 inches 22 36 cm. Doves have the longest breeding season of all birds so building a cone near a house will provide the best view of the birds long nesting period.
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