### animal | vertebrate | bird | pigeon | dove:

Ground dove
* build nests on the ground, which are often disturbed by humans.
* has a short, round dark tail.

Mourn dove
* Most mourn doves feed on grain.
* Some mourn doves become pests.
* Some mourn doves eat cocklebur seeds
  - have birds
* make sound.
* mate for life.
* nest in shelter.
* prefer habitats.

Mourning dove
* Many mourning doves are crippled and die slowly and painfully when dove hunters leave the field.
* Most mourning doves live less than one year.

White dove
* are thought of as spirit carriers also, as well as symbols of peace.
* fly and perch on the wasting crops.

Feral pigeon
* are well adapted to cities, suburbs and rural areas.
* live in old farm buildings in rural areas.

Male pigeon
* are more aggressive and strut
  - much more aggressive then female pigeons
* build shallow, saucer-like nests made of sticks and twigs.

Passenger pigeon
* Most passenger pigeons live in colonies
  - enormous colonies
* Some passenger pigeons eat insects.
* are extinct.

Wood pigeon
* Most wood pigeons have diets.
* are pigeons.
* have a varied diet which includes vegetables and berries
  - vary diets
* roost on telephone wires.
* seem to have a preference for trees near roadways and rivers.
* swoop from branch to branch, their wings ponderously beating the air.

Pipit
* are ground nesters , laying up to six speckled eggs
  - morphologically similar to some larks
* usually summer above the Arctic Circle and winter in the southern states.
  * They are slender, often drab, ground-feeding insectivores of open country. Like their relatives in the family, the pipits are monogamous and territorial. Pipits are ground nesters, laying up to six speckled eggs.

### animal | vertebrate | bird:

Pitta
* are a gound-dwelling insectivorous species.
* comes primarily from the element of fire and is hot, sharp, slightly oily.
* controls digestion of food, it is responsible for hunger, appetite and thirst
  - emotion like anger, fear and bravado
  - hormones and the digestive system
  - the enzymes that digest our food and the hormones that regulate our metabolism
* eat foods that are sweet, bitter, astingent, cold, heavy and dry.
* governs digestion and assimilation of food and liquids throughout the body
* is biological fire
  - directed to liver , intestine and gallbladder
  - hot, fluid, subtle, sharp, soft, and it governs all heat, and chemical reactions
* is increased by excessive intake of alcohol, tea, coffee, spicy, oily and fried foods
  - tea, coffee, alcohol, meats and excessive smoking
* is responsible for all metabolic activities
  - and chemical functions in the body
  - the digestion
  - stimulated by pungent, sour and slightly salty and weakened by sweet, bitter and acid
  - the fiery quality characterized by heat
* is the principle of biotransformation and is the cause of all metabolic processes in the body
* needs cooling foods, such as light soups, sweet fruits, beans and soy products.
* regulates temperature and is associated with the sun.
* represents fire and controls metabolic functioning and is also responsible for digestion
  - the element of metabolism that assimilates nourishment into the body

Plump bird
* Most plump birds have heads.
* Some plump birds perch on windowpanes.