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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. Use of non-toxic shot when hunting waterfowl has been mandatory, nationwide, since 1991. The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. Tom Cade and Gyr by Kate Davis.

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