About a month ago I wrote thoughts about our mourning dove. I have received new light on this subject, not sure about its authenticity. Recently when we were enjoying the sounds of this dove I made some off-hand comment about the call being a tad different from most of our mourning doves. My husband responded that he had heard this might be a slightly different breed of dove---not one found in our North American Wildlife book that I use often for identifying such things. He elaborated that south of the border, in Mexico, the doves there were over-populated and that their call was a little different from those to which we were accustomed.
I listened to this, noting that his expression was serious, knowledgeable, etc. Inside my head, I was thinking that the birds are crossing the Rio Grande just as the citizens, for a better life. I was also inwardly smiling. Hmmm, maybe our dove just has a Spanish accent. Hola or hello, works for me! Still love to know the bird likes our neighborhood.
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