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Flight is an English-language opera in three acts, with music by Jonathan Dove and libretto by April De Angelis.Commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera premiered the work at Glyndebourne Opera House in a production by Richard Jones on 24 September 1998.
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It looks very similar to the mourning dove, but is smaller in size, has a shorter, more rounded tail, and is a bit more darkly colored. It is also distinguished from the mourning dove by showing white on the trailing edge of its wings while in flight. The mourning dove does not have the white trailing edge.
Alanna Brown argued that though the novel was “ultimately co-written by L.V. McWhorter,” [20] Mourning Dove’s voice remains in the novel and “in its essence, the book is hers.” [3] Brown frequently used the term “collaboration” to describe the relationship between Mourning Dove and McWhorter. Most recent scholarship since her 1997 ...
Earliest published illustration of the species (a male), Mark Catesby, 1731 Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus coined the binomial name Columba macroura for both the mourning dove and the passenger pigeon in the 1758 edition of his work Systema Naturae (the starting point of biological nomenclature), wherein he appears to have considered the two identical.
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The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove , the rain dove , the chueybird , colloquially as the turtle dove , and it was once known as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove . [ 2 ]
Mourning Dove [a] (born Christine Quintasket [1]) or Humishuma [4] was a Native American (Okanogan , Arrow Lakes , and Colville) author best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range and her 1933 work Coyote Stories.