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The doves are the most commonly found birds in the regions of America. In the summer, they migrate in Northern US and in winter they migrate in Southern US.

There are over 300 species of Dove living in this world. Dove builds their nests by the means of dry leaves and sticks. This bird has a flimsy nest that has 2 small eggs inside of it. The nest is at least 5 to 6 feet up into a tree. The Doves usually live in colonies of 10 or more. The doves lays up to a maximum number of 3 eggs and it takes 3 weeks to hatch.The female dove cares the younger ones until they are able to fly.

They mainly eat grasses, weeds, beans, and high protein foods. They also do consume soybeans, sunflowers, peas, cucumbers, grain and wheat. The dove can live up to a maximum lifespan of 20 years. Adult male dove have forehead, face below the eye, throat and have breast that are black in color, giving the species a mask-like appearance.

The head of the female is grayish-brown with whitish forehead, face and throat, obscure blackish postural spot and dull brown line from gape to eye. In earlier times, doves were killed by humans every year and even in today’s time 45 million doves are killed each year. In western areas, population of doves is slowly decreasing.

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