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Mourning dove   /mˈɔrnɪŋ dəv/   Listen
Mourning dove

noun
1.
Wild dove of the United States having a mournful call.  Synonym: Zenaidura macroura.






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"Mourning dove" Quotes from Famous Books



... the kettles, buckets, and spiles and stopped at the spice thicket to cut a bale of twigs as he passed. He carried one load to the wagon and returned for another. Down wind on swift wing came a bird and entered the bushes. Motionless the Harvester peered at it. A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth. It settled on a limb and began dressing its plumage. At that instant a wavering, "Coo coo a'gh coo," broke in sobbing notes from the deep wood. Without paying the slightest heed, the dove finished a wing, ruffled and settled her feathers, ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter



Words linked to "Mourning dove" :   genus Zenaidura, dove, Zenaidura macroura, Zenaidura



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