White-tipped Dove
White-tipped Dove: Medium dove, gray-brown upperparts, pale gray breast, white forehead and belly, chestnut-brown underwings, white-tipped tail. Black bill, red legs and feet. Feeds mainly from the ground. Walks on ground in dense understory. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.
● Song:
"ooh-oohoooooooooooooo"
● Foraging & Feeding:
White-tipped Dove: Eats seeds, prickly pear cactus, grass, cultivated grains, and large insects; forages on the ground.
● Breeding & nesting:
White-tipped Dove: Two creamy buff eggs are laid in a nest made from sticks, grass, fibers, and weed stems and built in low branch of a tree, shrub, or tangle of vines. Sometimes nests on the ground. Both parents incubate eggs for about 14 days.
● Similar species:
White-tipped Dove: Mourning Dove has pink-gray forehead and throat, gray underparts, and long, pointed tail with white tips on all but central tail feathers. White-winged Dove has white crescents across wings.