![]() This was accepted by the ICZN, which used its plenary powers to designate the species for the respective names in 1955. To resolve the confusion over the binomial names of the two species, Francis Hemming proposed in 1952 that the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) secure the specific name macroura for the mourning dove and migratorius for the passenger pigeon, since this was the intended use by the authors on whose work Linnaeus had based his description. He dropped Columba macroura and instead coined Columba migratoria for the passenger pigeon, Columba cariolensis for the mourning dove and Columba marginata for Edwards's mourning dove. Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae again in 1766 for the twelfth edition. He cited Edwards's description of the mourning dove and Catesby's description of the passenger pigeon. He used the Latin name Columba macroura introduced by Edwards as the binomial name but included a description mainly based on Catesby. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he conflated the two species. Edwards's pictures of the male and female doves were drawn from live birds that had been shipped to England from the West Indies. In 1743 the naturalist George Edwards included the mourning dove with the English name "long-tail'd dove" and the Latin name Columba macroura in his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. For the passenger pigeon he used the common name "Pigeon of passage" and the scientific Latin Palumbus migratorius for the mourning dove he used "Turtle of Carolina" and Turtur carolinensis. In 1731, the English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the passenger pigeon and the mourning dove on successive pages of his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Mourning doves eat almost exclusively seeds, but the young are fed crop milk by their parents.Ĭladogram showing the position of the mourning dove in the genus Zenaida. Both parents incubate and care for the young. The species is generally monogamous, with two squabs (young) per brood. Males and females are similar in appearance. ![]() Mourning doves are light gray and brown and generally muted in color. ![]() The bird is a strong flier, capable of speeds up to 88 km/h (55 mph). The wings make an unusual whistling sound upon take-off and landing, a form of sonation. Its ability to sustain its population under such pressure is due to its prolific breeding in warm areas, one pair may raise up to six broods of two young each in a single year. It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds and a popular gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in some years) shot annually in the U.S., both for sport and meat. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove, the rain dove, colloquially as the turtle dove, and it was once known as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove. The mourning dove ( Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. Ectopistes carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766).
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