Zenaida asiatica are biggish birds. The inca dove is smaller, cuter, and seems to hang out in little groups more often than the other two doves. Most bird books mention that doves feed their chicks on a kind of milky substance that they produce in their throats. But some of the books fail to mention that their throats are also unusual, in that they have muscles that let the doves swallow without raising their heads. Most birds can't do this.
Flycatchers have fluffy heads, good eyesight, and funny bristles around their nostrils.
Most people like meeting flycatchers, and I was honored to watch a couple of these brown-crested flycatchers living up to their names, what with their brown crests and their flycatching. Black-tailed gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura Palm Canyon, Kofa NWR These tiny birds, like other gnatcatchers, seem undisturbed by hikers. One followed behind me as I hikied up into Palm Canyon, zeeping most of the time and presumably catching small flies. The gnatcatchers look vaguely like chickadees, but they act more like the big Myiarchus flycatchers, only on a small scale. Mittry Lake - Betty's Kitchen Gila woodpeckers are probably the main reason I love visiting the Sonoran desert.