Alaska and southern Canada to Panama. These birds are medium sized, brownish, and with a rounded or pointed, white tipped tail. They prefer seeds that rest on the gound. Occassionally, they eat in trees and bushes when the ground foods have become scarce.
Doves also like to ingest agricultural crops.
Those especially coveted are cereal grains such as corn, millet, rye, barley, and oats. Reproduction Mourning doves are monogamous. Furthermore, some of these pairs stay on as couples thru the winter. After finding a mate, the male initates the nest selection site. Nest construction takes over ten hours and covers a span of three to four days.