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Examples of mourning dove in a Sentence
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The coos of a mourning dove float in on the breeze.
—Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
Among the likely birds in Sacramento: house finch, mourning dove, crow, cedar waxwing, scrub jay, mockingbird, sparrow, goldfinch, junco and woodpecker.
—Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
Some of these, like the mourning dove, acted as non-learning controls.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
The mourning dove has a very rhythmic, soothing coo.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Hunters killed approximately 11 million mourning doves in 2020 and 9 million the following year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
—John Heasly, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
By far the most common, numerous, widespread, and important to hunters, is the mourning dove.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
That seasons in each of these states begin each year on the same date, Sept. 1, is borderline amazing, given the temperature extremes that prevail, north to south, on the opener in what the Fish and Wildlife Service calls its mourning dove Central Management Unit.
—Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
The rising, fluty whistle of a mourning dove.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1833, in the meaning defined above
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“Mourning dove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mourning%20dove. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
mourning dove
noun
: a dove of North America with a mournful call
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