Weight and Body-Fat Relationships of Mourning Doves in Illinois

Hanson, Harold C.; Kossack, Charles W.

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“…Mourning Doves feed heavily upon waste or stored corn throughout the winter (Armstrong and Noakes 1981). The physiological consequences of this reliance on corn are uncertain, but immature wild doves feeding on corn during nonwinter months grew faster, weighed more, and had more body fat than those feeding on other foods (Hanson and Kossack 1957). The linear relationship between winter counts of doves and the amount of farmland planted to corn suggests that the increasing acreage in grain corn may be partially responsible for the increasing population of overwintering doves in southern Ontario.…”

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Wintering biology of Mourning Doves, Zenaida macroura, in Ontario

Armstrong,

Noakes

1983

The Canadian Field-Naturalist

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Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura, populations in Ontario contain both migratory and non-migratory birds. Wintering doves often suffer damage to their feet, and moulting of immature and second-year doves declines or ceases during winter. Doves are overwintering in Ontario in increasing numbers, probably as a result of increasing availability of food supplies. Greatest early winter densities are found along northern Lake Erie and southern Lake Huron.

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confidence: 99%