Mourning Dove Facts: their WINGS WHISTLE | Animal Fact Files

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Mourning doves make one of my favorite bird sounds. What do you think of them? Here are some more dove facts to check out on AFF: Dove Facts / Pigeon Facts - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2a9k518breZjbs ✨ Animal Fact Files Patreon Supporters get early access to videos, their requests made first, exclusive content, and more! ✨ 👉 www.patreon.com/animalfactfiles

[@SeventhSamurai72]

Born 1972, learns in 2023 that morning doves are mourning doves...

[@aberf9441]

Same!

[@farcenter]

Same! Not the same year but been plenty long !

[@Celestial-g8e]

Same! This whole time I’ve lived in Wisconsin I thought they were owls hooting 😂🤣 I was born and raised in NYC and we don’t have them there so I didn’t know

[@birddayparties]

Me too 🤣🤣better late then never

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

It helps to have someone around who is well versed in ornithology. Otherwise I would likely be clueless. Also, you are young. Be kind to yourself.

[@freevbuckslol9158]

Those birds are so cute

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Completely agreed!

[@lens8617]

Doves act very innocent but they are actually smart.

[@olorin4317]

Their wings make the whistle sound? I always figured it was like a freaked out, alarm twitter. Fascinating.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

The more you know 😸

[@corbintrevor3199]

I thought the exact same thing. I've heard that sound so often, and to know it comes from their wings is just amazing.

[@wikipediaintellectual7088]

I think a lot of birds do that. Not just mourning doves.

[@ameliaq.7481]

I can't get over how cute the bird at the beginning looks. All chonky and puffed up.

[@birddayparties]

🤣🤣That awesome image got me to click into the video

[@TruthBlake]

lol

[@ConnorJara]

I had a Mourning Dove as a pet in my youth and it was such a great experience and cemented my love of birds. Mourning Doves have so much personality! He would greet meet every morning and when I got home by flying on my head, he would preen my hair for hours during my gaming or TV time and just sit and be content. He even had a bed time and would walk himself to bed on my chair in my bedroom on his own, cooing to me that he was going to sleep. Playful like a dog and just a genuine joy to be around. Miss him every day but it was a core memory having him as a pet.

[@HeavyRayne]

I had no idea it was their wings making that sound! My mind is kind of blown

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Glad you learned something new! 😸

[@GuardianAngel..]

Your right! Their wings really do make a whistling sound

[@galaxystarrs5432]

I always mistook their calls for owls as a kid. I always hear them every morning until the afternoon. I think they are adorable birds.

[@chefmastermikecmm8465]

Me too! 😂

[@Akasnacker]

Thank you very cute animal very cute presentation!

[@Teefschomp]

Mourning doves have been an all time favorite bird since I was a tot thanks for making such amazing videos as always

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Same! I love hearing and seeing them!

[@callicordova4066]

I had no idea that funny little noise they make when they fly off was from their wings.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

I had heard the whistling sound before, but had never realized it was their wings and not a vocalization.

[@dmhq-administration]

I like Mourning Doves. 🥰🤗💖🇨🇦

[@randomanda]

We have tons of mourning and Eurasian collared doves right in our yard, so that’s a familiar sound to me and I did not know that was from their wings!

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Glad you learned something new!

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

They are precious and deserve protection, as do all animals.

[@birddayparties]

Agree, hope these are not the ones people hunt

[@Emlane09]

I only have one… usually there’s 2, so I hope more comes

[@DogFoxHybrid]

Got a pair nesting on my balcony in a pot next to a plant. Fingers crossed they're successful. If all goes well, I'll set aside a nesting area for them to use next season.

[@lisamatheson3831]

I just love doves! They are so sweet and adorable! I love watching them at my bird feeder and hearing their soothing sounds!!❤

[@mitche5007]

The sounds they make are different on the East Coast compared to the West Coast, they also respond to Spirit😊

[@battery_wattage]

I always thought the whistling sound was from fast breathing during take off.

[@birddayparties]

Love your story telling! 👍👍new subscriber here💗💗💙💙

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Thanks so much! 😻

[@skatetoexplorevideos2477]

Their mourning sounds calm me down. It's relaxing. They do it outside my house everyday by my window on the roof. Even more so before the sun goes down.

[@leslieortenzi8875]

Their song is one of the most relaxing sounds I know! So steady and soft.

[@mlbrooks4066]

I love doves too. I always noted that head bob and wondered why they did that, then I found out they have an organ in their heads that, when they bob their heads, lets them determine how far away what they're looking at is. Since their eyes are on the sides of their heads, they don't have depth perception, except via that head bob.

[@spitfirebird]

In my current town, we get these guys year-round. They don’t even migrate. They’re just chilling on power lines in the dead of winter, somehow tolerating the intense cold and snow. I wish i had the tolerance they have lol. I have also seen them instinctively fly away when a falcon flew towards the power line they were sitting on.

[@birddayparties]

🤣🤣They hang around in my area too .. even when it snows

[@erstwhilegrubstake]

The thing that always would get me is how they would rest and sometimes nap on our back lawn. Almost like a lunch invitation for a cat. Get up in the branches bird!

[@birddayparties]

Right .. the doves in our backyard sits on the ground like they are having a picnic 🤣🤣

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

They definitely are not the most clever of bird species. Lol

[@ballpython3310]

Love this bird, I live at the edge of a forest and always let these birds nest on my house.

[@birddayparties]

Thanks for letting them do that👍👍💗💗

[@lunameriweather7693]

i'm not the only one who thought it was morning doves

[@seeker296]

animal calls are not just for mating. they declare territory, communicate presence to current mate/offpsring, and probably express emotion and other forms of communication that are either human or unimaginable to humans :)

[@Pumeanmother]

Hello How are you ? I love and like pigeons, when I leave school I always feed them forever, thank you very much for sharing❤🎉

[@nasdilemactyler1939]

I always enjoy these videos you post! Keep it up!

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Thanks so much!

[@blackberrynina999]

2:35 B A L L

[@naddesigns101]

Every morning I mourn 😊

[@Ay-xq7mj]

Actually 'saw' one get grabbed by a hawk or such. It was standing in the middle of the yard and i thought it was dumb since it was so vulnerable then I looked away for like 4 seconds looked back to see a hawk holding it down then it flew off with it.

[@hannahelorie2527]

Great video 👍

[@michaelsimko7694]

Mourning Doves are the first birds to start singing before spring in my area. Late February is when I normally start hearing the males singing their cooing call. The only other bird that I hear singing is the Carolina Wren, which is a year-round singer. Another member of the Pigeon/Dove family native to North America you should do a video on is either the Band-tail Pigeon or the White-crowned Pigeon.

[@birddayparties]

Didn't know they did that👍👍

[@billierishious]

I had a mourning dove that lived right on my window. It made a whole nest and a few babies too. I moved a few years ago and haven't heard it since.

[@wsword223]

We have a nesting box and a pair of Mourning Doves will come and breed there every spring. They usually have 2-4 pairs of chicks.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Aww that's really cute!

[@birddayparties]

Thanks for providing the room👍👍The trigs I saw in the video is not very sturdy😅😅

[@hiker64]

Mourning doves will come to your bird feeders like a... let's say "generously proportioned" person will come to a Golden Corral buffet restaurant, and they will sit there and eat and eat and eat, and THEN sit in the feeders, or on the ground or in a tree like a family that just came out of Cracker Barrel and just sits on the rockers talking and digesting.

[@georgeacton7918]

They decimate my WiFi camera feeder, bullying all my good birds away and eating all my feed. Even the alarm does not deter them. They are a nuisance. Where are the hawks when you need them.

[@xXxequisxXx]

The females have a call too, but it's much shorter than the one the males make.

[@janowens2212]

Beautiful ❤2023 Thanks for sharing.

[@maggotwclf]

these things disappeared from my life when i hit the age of 9 i miss them

[@keatonblackman472]

in my yard we have some Mourning Doves sometimes and they sound Beautiful when they make their Mourning sound and my mom also goes out to the Bird feeder so she can feed them seed Bird seed

[@birddayparties]

Thanks for feeding them💪💪

[@patriciabeyer8029]

Thanks.

[@tyizzle80]

We have gray Mourning doves in So Cali and all this time I thought the whistling sound were vocalizations

[@sennemaa59769]

they are so beautifil!

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

The Bus Stop Bird ❤

[@birddayparties]

I do see them there 😅😅Good observation👍👍

[@CBordages]

Where I live, mourning doves abound, and everything you say is true. I did get my bubble busted about them, though, they are very territorial, especially during mating season and they will fight.

[@birddayparties]

Ours exhibit the same territorial behavior and they use their wings to flap off others or chase them around 😅😅

[@echodelta9]

I like to call them daily doves. Morning noon or night. I once heard one at 2 AM. You hear them every day year round. The mellow coo comes thru the body not the beak. A natural low pass filter.

[@birddayparties]

Learn something new that the sound is thru the body 😃😃thanks! 💪💪

[@uabir8338]

Pigeons ❤️❤️❤️

[@Alexa-eo4tf]

There are many at my house,very tame and trusting to us cuz we give them dry rice

[@danicina2226]

Zenaida aurículata lives in south america is south america dove

[@indyreno2933]

Can you do fact files on the sunbittern?

[@mikes7446]

I had a pair have a baby in my backyard. They make me think of cinnamon

[@pattybips5519]

There are LOTS of them in my backyard and they camp out on my feeders. They are pigs

[@carterthechevrolet9219]

Mourning doves when they fly whistle, when they compare it to hummingbirds chirping.

[@kingstonlee3054]

cute fat bird

[@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr]

Their call is sweet,but they are the silliest birds , they start flying in front of vehicles and get hit to be killed

[@comradeweismann6947]

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[@Soldier3212]

This is my favorite wild bird to hunt. You can kill multiple in a grouping with good bird shot and the meat tastes amazing wrapped in bacon and jalapeños.

[@KrisD007]

Mourning isn’t an emotional, it’s a verb, we mourn, we do not feel mourn

[@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr]

The call of the male dove is a bit deeper than the female

[@johncrocker4209]

From what I have been told the taste like chicken.

[@birddayparties]

People eat them 😲😲

[@johncrocker4209]

@birddayparties Yes. Although I don't think it's as common now. If it's a choice between dove and starve; most would eat one.

[@raphlvlogs271]

the difference between doves and feral pigeons is just like that between mice and rats

[@ElidaOchoa-v5t]

Yes, someone's gonna be mourning cuz me lo voy a hechar al plato

[@damien9683]

So when it's looking for marriage, it sounds like its *mourning?* Ironic...