Call me silly…
and stupid, and naive for not knowing, but how many of you knew about mourning doves? When I would visit Wisconsin I heard this bird and didn’t know what it was. I don’t remember hearing it at home, so I though it was a farmland type bird. Over the past year, I heard this sound again, and today I finally went to research it. Of course, how do you research a bird without knowing anything but the sound?
Well, I went to Cornell’s Ornithology site and scrolled down the taxonomic list to find a type of bird that might be found in both rural and urban places. I also looked at a few birds like the gyrfalcon, which I knew wasn’t found in the city, but whose name sounded really cool. Anyway, I found the mourning dove and rejoiced. Any glimmer of nature in the city (especially when they tear down a tree right near me on an apparent whim) is fantastic. Pigeons are cool sounding sometimes, but you get tired of those after a few years.
Yay! I felt I had to share.
April 21st, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Neat! I always thought it was “morning” dove, never would have thought to search for “mourning.” Except I guess Google would have corrected me, for Google knows all(tm).