White-winged Dove drinking nectar from feeder (1 Viewer)

Aside from the hummingbirds, the only birds I've seen helping themselves to the nectar are Hooded Orioles and Gila Woodpeckers, but today there was a White-winged Dove sitting there for several minutes taking long draughts from one feeder. Any of you CA,AZ,NM,TX, or Mexican folks seen this before?

I've seen them try; but haven't seen them succeed.

Lisa W said:

I've seen them try; but haven't seen them succeed.

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I have the Aspects HummZinger feeders, the dish type, so it gave him (her?) a place to land. That's another odd thing because I've never seen a dove make a successful landing because the feeders have covers over them. He's the first I've seen in the 7-8 years I've been hanging out feeders. Even the woodpeckers are a bit clumsy when they drink from the feeders. Bird adaptation is quite marvelous sometimes.

I just looked it up and White-winged Doves eat fruit in addition to seeds. I wasn't aware of that. I thought that maybe the dove was just drinking the nectar as it would water, because it's thirsty.