: an American dove (Zenaida macroura) with a pointed tail and a plaintive coo
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So, some of your mourning doves might have flown down to Southern California, but others may have just moved a few miles to where food is more abundant.—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2025 One of the birds was a mourning dove and the other a European starling.—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025 The west-facing windows welcomed warm light into the kitchen, and the cooing of the mourning doves filled the silence.—Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2025 The aunties begin to sing a typical Zambian spiritual in the minor key of a mourning dove.—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mourning dove
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