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Hearing the mourning dove again was a revelation, but with it came a realization: the wistful coo hadn't been in the air for years. L.A. mystery: The mourning doves stopped singing. What happened ...
Mourning doves reject slightly under a third of cowbird eggs in such nests, and the mourning dove's vegetarian diet is unsuitable for cowbirds. [40] Mourning doves can be afflicted with several different diseases and parasites, including tapeworms, nematodes, mites, and lice. The mouth-dwelling parasite Trichomonas gallinae is particularly severe.
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.
Six minutes before the crash and one minute before the flight data and voice recorders stopped recording, the airport traffic control issued a warning of nearby birds, a hazard to the aircraft. Shortly afterwards, the pilots acknowledged the presence of a flock of birds flying below the aircraft. A minute later, the pilot declared a mayday.
I first noticed the large gathering of mourning doves under our bird feeder earlier this winter.
Aug. 28—AUSTIN — A rainy spring and early summer led to a good nesting season through most of the state and near record high populations of mourning and white-wing doves across large portions ...
[142] [1] The crew had reported a strong impact on the fuselage from what was initially assumed to have been birds. Multiple experts from multiple countries stated that the damage in the images were not consistent with a bird strike, and that birds do not fly at the altitude that the plane was flying when the initial damage occurred. [140]
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States. On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.