Mourning Dove
| Zenaida macroura | Order: Columbiformes | Family: Columbidae (Pigeons and Doves) |
Zenaida macroura
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae (Pigeons and Doves)
The most heavily hunted game bird in the U.S. is also one of the most beloved backyard birds. It’s named for the mournful tone of its common call.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places 2023
- Enhance Your Nest Boxes with Bark! 2023
- Spring Update 2023
- Earning Trust in the Age of Climate Change 2023
- Dawn Comes to Peabody Street 2023
- Mourning Doves! 2023
- How to Eat a Sunflower Seed If You're a Dove or a Finch 2023
- Hit By Pitch 2022
- Three Book Reviews 2022
- Fall Migration Update 2020
- Margaret Morse Nice 2020
- Balancing Our Curiosity and Wonder with What Birds Need 2020
- Spring Is Springing! 2020
- They Shoot Swans, Don't They? (TIME SENSITIVE. MUST be aired on April 20,.) 2020
- Marie's Birds 2020
- Spring Update: March Madness 2019
- The Onion closes the tragic case of a fastball pulverizing a Mourning Dove 2019
- Our Far Flung Correspondents: Mealworms and Water in Winter 2018
- Divided We Fall 2017
- New Mockingbird Research 2016
- Winter Bird Update 2016
- Hunter vs. Non-Hunter: A Tale of Two Little Kids 2015
- Peabody Street Robins 2015
- 2015 Mourning Dove Survey 2015
- Oldest Wild Birds 2014
- Hawks and Doves 2014
- Where are the conservationist hunters of yesteryear? 2014
- This Frigid Winter 2014
- Minnesota Non-Game Wildlife Program's Bait-and-Switch 2012
- The Changing of the Guard 2012
- Mr. Borkowski, Great Teacher or the Greatest Teacher? 2012
- Mourning Dove Survey 2012 2012
- Photographing Birds 2011
- August Birding 2011
- Mystical Connections, Part I 2011
- Golden-winged Warbler 2011
- Birthday 2010 2010
- Airplane-Bird Collisions 2009
- Kasey the Cat's Big Screen TV 2008
- Dawn Chorus 2008
- Save Gas to Save Birds 2008
- Mourning Dove Hunting Season in Minnesota 2008
- Mourning Dove 2008
- Ithaca: New Yard List! 2008
- Seed-eating Birds 2007
- Mourning Dove Survey 2007 2007
- Birds in the Movies 2006
- Mourning Dove Hunting 2005
- Great Backyard Bird Count, 2005 2005
- George Ellis's Mourning Doves: Sad Update 2005
- Birds in the News in Ohio: Iced Tails and Odd Winter Sightings 2005
- Cold Birds 2005
- George Ellis's Mourning Doves 2005
- Downy Woodpecker 2004
- Mourning Dove Hunt: Facts and Figures 2004
- Mourning Dove Season 2004
- Dropping out of the Sky 2003
- Winter's start 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- November 2003
- Birds and People 2003
- Rats 2003
- Wisconsin Mourning Dove Season 2003
- Yard List, Part III 2003
- Home from Ohio 2003
- Mourning Dove Season 2003
- Ice Storm 2003
- Iraq 2003
- Feeding Birds in August, Part II 2002
- Noise 2002
- Birthday 2001 2001
- Barbara's Questions about Bird Feeding 2001
- Autumn 2001
- Canada Warbler and other Fall Birds 2001
- Feeder and Bird Bath Issues 2001
- Cardinal Memories 2000
- Summer Feeding 2000
- Mourning Dove Season 2000
- Sixteen Years 1999
- Passenger Pigeon (reworked from 1989) 1999
- Ovenbird 1999
- Altruism 1999
- Fewer Birds 1999
- Emily Dickinson 1998
- Dove Hunt Referendum in Ohio 1998
- Northern Shrike 1998
- Mourning Dove 1998
- Frostbite (Placeholder) 1998
- Cemetery Birds 1997
- Mourning Dove 1997
- April 1997
- Emily Dickinson 1996
- Bernice the Pigeon 1996
- Spring Arrives 1996
- Groundhog Day 1996
- Albinism and Leucism 1995
- Mourning Dove Survey 1995
- Summer bird feeders 1994
- Snipe 1994
- Feeding birds in winter 1994
- Mourning Dove Survey (Placeholder) 1993
- Mourning Doves (Placeholder) 1993
- Phone Log 1992
- Bird Songs 1992
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- Frostbite 1991
- Mourning Dove 1989
- Summertime 1989
- Cats 1989
- Mourning Dove 1989
- April 1989
- Migration Update 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Contest results, part 2 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- Attracting Birds 1989
- Bird Feeding 1988
- Autumn Dawn 1988
- Mourning Dove 1988
- More Questions about Birds 1988
- Last Robin of Winter contest announced 1988
- State Birds 1988
- Passenger Pigeon 1987
- Migration Update 1987
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Fall Feeding 1986
- Familiar Songs and Calls 1986
Sound Recordings
- Breakfast in the Driftless 2024
- Lincoln's Sparrow: a minute and a half of song 2022
- White-throated Sparrow: 5 minutes of singing 2022
- Dawn from my office window 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- An Hour of Early Morning Song 2022
- April 17 Morning Song 2022
- Wood Thrush! 2021
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- American Goldfinch: 7 "Beee" calls 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 2 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- Morning Twitterings 2020
- Anhinga: Adult male, 2 calls 2019
- Dawn on Hog Island, 2018 2018
- Northern Parula at Hog Island 2018
- Yellow-throated Vireo: 7 songs 2018
- Baltimore Oriole chatter 2018
- House Wren: 13 songs 2018
- House Wren: 6 minutes of singing 2018
- White-breasted Nuthatch: 3 songs 2018
- Northern Cardinal: 5 songs 2018
- Dawn in Trempealeau, Wisconsin; May 12, 2018 2018
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2018
- Anhinga Trail sounds 2018
- Dawn on the Anhinga Trail 2018
- Boat-tailed Grackle 2018
- Dueling Great Crested Flycatcher and Red-bellied Woodpecker 2018
- Northern Cardinal 2017
- Hog Island sounds, June 4, 2016, 8:30 am 2016
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009
- Dawn Chorus, Port Wing near sewage ponds 2001
- Fox Sparrows and other April birds 2001