Mourning dove

Zenaida macroura · Columbidae

The mourning dove is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove, the rain dove, and colloquially as the turtle dove, and it was once known as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove. , both for sport and meat.

Where the Mourning dove lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Ontario.

See the Mourning dove’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 27,352,564 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.