Mourning dove
Chapter 4: How a Bird Gets Its Song
Subchapter: Inborn songs
From page 45 in the book.
Photo by Wil Hershberger
♫137. The innate cooowaah, cooo, coo, coo song. April 11, 2017. Cricket Hill, Conway, Massachusetts. (3:47).
♫138. Half an hour before sunrise, this mourning dove offers his contribution to a rather quiet early spring dawn chorus. In the background are other mourning doves and two countersinging black-capped chickadees exchanging their hey-sweetie on different pitches (see also p. 155 in the book). 5:55 to 6:02 a.m.; sunrise at 6:28 a.m. April 30, 2018. Atlanta, Michigan. (7:11)