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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.”

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. ii) cooperative breeders may be more obvious targets as a result of the increased activity of helpers near the nest. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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