#1021 · 🐦 birds

Mourning Dove

🇳🇱 Treurduif ·Zenaida macroura

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The mourning dove ( Zenaida macroura ) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove or the rain dove , and erroneously as the turtle dove , and was once known as the Carolina pigeon or Carolina turtledove . It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. It is also a leading gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in some years)...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 314,425iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
314,425 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).