mourning dove

And then, flash forward 30 or so years later, I’m like, “Oh wow, listen to those mourning doves!”

Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.

He had heard the woeful sounds of a mourning dove, but that was the wrong kind of pigeon.

“We see ducks down here. They see frogs and turtles, different birds like red wing blackbirds and mourning doves,” Tursi said.

Before Merlin, I’d always assumed the distinct “coo” I heard was from a mourning dove.