They have rusty wing patches easily seen when they fly. Inca s have a distinctive fish scale pattern on their breast, head and back feathers. Inca doves usually nest 2 to 5 times during a season. Eggs hatch in14 days, the young fledge 14 to 16 days after that. Seeds During courtship, the male inca dove bows, coos and struts in front of the female, fanning his tail feathers.
Males battle furiously for females.
Inca doves are found in urban and suburban settings, woodland edges, savannahs, thickets and around cultivated fields in south-central Texas, Arizona and New Mexico as well as old Mexico and as far south as Costa Rica. With their soft cooing calls, males strutting for females and their regular use of bird feeders, inca doves quickly become back yard favorites. Inca doves seem to be increasing in areas of human disturbance. Dove and pigeon nestlings are fed pigeon milk a high protein milky substance produced and regurgitated by their parents. Dove nests are a flimsy basket of sticks barely woven together.