When I said I was pretty sure this is a Mourning Dove, I was wrong. Au contraire, my friends… turns out she’s a White-winged Dove. Thanks, CeeCee!
No surprise, it’s all in the details. White-winged Doves have white stripes on their wings.
Eurasian-collared Doves are lighter in color and have napes ringed with a half-black collar. Mourning Doves are medium-sized with gray-brown wings with black spots.
Honestly, I would’ve never thought there were three unique dove species here at Morning Bray Farm. If I wasn’ t blogging, I might have never realized it. ♥
p.s. Don just looked at what I was blogging and asked me if the name of this post was going to be I’m suddenly obsessed with doves and I don’t know why. ♥
Morning Bray Farm 
January 18, 2011 at 5:43 am
Well, now you’ve got ME wondering. I’m going to have to check our doves out the next time they come to the feeder. Spots, dark neck collar, or white wing feathers.
I’m ready! (Maybe we don’t have Mourning Doves after all?) The mystery continues…
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January 18, 2011 at 6:46 am
C,
I’m interested in knowing what you discover… 🙂
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February 26, 2024 at 4:42 pm
A remark on how we discovered white wing doves: mummy husband and I were sitting in our hot tub and heard what we thought was a sick mourning dove cooing. When we got the binoculars, we noticed the source was a different looking dove, and then took note of the white wings and got our trusty bird book out. Alas the white wing dove was discovered in outlet yard. It brought tears of laughter when we we hear that warbled cooing haha.
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January 18, 2011 at 5:43 am
I will be hearing Stevie Nicks all day….
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January 18, 2011 at 6:45 am
June,
Ooh. Now that you mention it, me too. Just like the white-winged dove…
It’s a good thing I love Stevie Nicks. 😀
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January 18, 2011 at 7:33 am
Glad to know I’m not the only one!!
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January 18, 2011 at 6:44 am
I know why — because you never knew there were so many kinds, right there, and now you do! 🙂 That would raise my interest level considerably, too! 🙂
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January 18, 2011 at 6:48 am
Vicki,
Exactly! 😀
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January 18, 2011 at 6:45 am
Here’s a question about all those doves — do they sound the same?
🙂
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January 18, 2011 at 6:53 am
Vicki,
No, they have unique calls! 🙂
You can listen to their calls by going to these links:
White-winged: “who-cooks-for you”, “hooo-hooo-hooo” http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/267/_/White-winged_Dove.aspx
Mourning: “coo-ah, coo-coo-coo” http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/163/_/Mourning_Dove.aspx
Eurasian-collared: “hoo-hoooo-hoo”, “krreeeew”, “hwaah”, “krreair” http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/887/_/Eurasian_Collared-Dove.aspx
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January 18, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I figured they must have different calls…. The recording on the mourning dove page is *just* what I think of…..
Doncha love the web??????
🙂
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January 18, 2011 at 7:22 am
Tell Don I once spent two years trying to figure out what the wrongly colored goldfinch at my feeder was. Well, not two whole years, just two winters. Turns out it’s a Lesser Goldfinch–not in any of my bird books. Finally I Googled “Goldfinch with all black back” and there he was. What did we ever do before Google?
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January 18, 2011 at 9:12 pm
CeeCee,
Paid a fortune for encyclopedias? 😉 Thank you again. 😀 xoxo
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January 18, 2011 at 8:14 am
That is very cool! I love coming to your site because I never know what we are going to learn. I’m going to pay closer attention to the doves we have at the Arsenal. I’ve always just assumed that they are the Mourning Doves…
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January 18, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Cathy,
I did too… (assume that they were all Mourning Doves…)
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January 18, 2011 at 9:00 am
Don’t you just LOVE blogging? No matter how much googling I did, I could not find a picture to match the small bird I found in our pasture the other day – I posted the pictures I had and got at least 5 comment informing me it was a ruby-crowned kinglet.
You got some great photos to show the difference between the two varieties! Beautiful birds.
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January 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Danni,
Yes! I LOVE blogging! I would’ve never guessed in a million years that I’d learn so much from blogging. 🙂
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January 18, 2011 at 9:03 am
So pretty. Love their blue beaks and eyeshadow. Very stylin’.
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January 18, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Carolynn,
Me too. Totally stylin’, huh?
Is blue eyeshadow back in vogue? 😉
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January 18, 2011 at 9:22 am
Oh my…(wiping tears from my eyes) I know the post about the calls wasn’t meant to be funny, but when I tried to imitate the calls and ‘hear’ the difference, it made me begin to laugh. Just trying to pronounce “krreair” tickles me!
I knew about the Eurasian and Mourning doves, but didn’t know about the White-winged ones. Thanks for helping me learn! We have the collared doves here, and they were new to me when we moved here. I’ll have to look for the others.
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January 18, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Cyndi,
You’re welcome!
We’re more than happy to help make you laugh until you cry. That’s a good thing. 😀
The screeching call of the Eurasian-collared doves is what got me started on this entire journey! I wondered for the longest time what was wrong with the doves here until I looked it up. 🙂
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January 18, 2011 at 11:55 am
You know I’ll bet I’ve seen all of these too, but didn’t notice the different species. I just thought they were all mourning doves. Thanks for showing us the difference. I look more closely next time.
Suzanne
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January 18, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Suzanne,
You’re welcome! I never noticed the differences either… it’s all in the details… 😉 😀
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January 18, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Thats so interesting!! Now I will look for Mourning Doves and White-Winged ones here. I had the Eurasian at the bird feeder (sound is the same as from the relatives far away! Hoo-Hoooo-Hoo) and one other I could not identify so far. Now I HAVE TO.
You know, there are 300 species of doves…
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January 18, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Pia,
It’s absolutely incredible that there are over 300 species of doves in the world! I would have never known.
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January 18, 2011 at 12:40 pm
We have similar (but NOT the same) doves here in Auckland, New Zealand. After your last post I tried to search out what “my” doves are called but I’m still not sure. I will keep looking. The obsession with doves is sweeping the globe…. Hehehe. Really interesting, thanks for sparking off the search.
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January 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Alice,
I wonder if you have the Malay spotted dove?
http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/malayspotteddove.html
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January 18, 2011 at 6:50 pm
I don’t think any doves make it as far north as Alaska. I did see a flock of pigeons today but I think they are domestic escapees that have adapted.
You have an award waiting for you on my blog. Hope that’s okay.
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January 18, 2011 at 9:31 pm
ms martyr,
That was so kind of you – truly, thank you. 🙂
I think doves and pigeons come from the same family… Family Columbidae. 😀
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