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Zenaida macroura

Photo by Screech

[edit] Identification

• Light brown overall
• Gray crown
• Black mark on neck/cheek
• Black spots on coverts
• Dark primaries
• Long tail
  • Inner feathers longest
  • Outer feathers tipped white

Males have a rosy pink iridescence on their neck.
Wings whistle during take-off.

[edit] Distribution

USA, southern Canada and south to Central America.

[edit] Habitat

Open woodlands and cultivation, farmyards and gardens in towns.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Behaviour

Common visitor to backyard bird feeders.

[edit] Voice

A low series of coos ooo-a-ooo oooo ooo ooo

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