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  2. Doves as symbols - Wikipedia

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    J. E. Millais: The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851). According to the biblical story (Genesis 8:11), a dove was released by Noah after the Flood in order to find land; it came back carrying a freshly plucked olive leaf (Hebrew: עלה זית alay zayit), [7] a sign of life after the Flood and of God's bringing Noah, his family and the animals to land.

  3. Mourning dove - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Birds of a feather flock together - Wikipedia

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    Birds "of a feather" (in this case red-winged blackbirds) exhibiting flocking behavior, source of the idiom. Birds of a feather flock together is an English proverb. The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character, or other distinctive attribute tend to mutually associate.

  5. Columbidae - Wikipedia

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    Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.It is the only family in the order Columbiformes.These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres.

  6. Human uses of birds - Wikipedia

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    Feathers in fashion were a status symbol well into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Belle Epoque draped its clothing in feathers as ornaments. [ 34 ] The Hudson's Bay Company of Canada traded in swans and sometimes geese , for their skins and quills in the 18th and 19th centuries; the skins were then sent to Europe. [ 35 ]

  7. Strong mourning and white-winged populations forecast for ...

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    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 ...

  8. Talk:Mourning dove - Wikipedia

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    Mourning dove is a featured article; ... Mourning doves are also Michigan's symbol of peace ... if feathers produce this sound, you'd expect more birds to produce ...

  9. When You See a Blue Jay, It Could Be a Major Sign That You ...

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    Learn what blue jays symbolize, their spiritual connection to the Bible, if they represent good or bad luck, and what to do if you see a blue jay.