Ecology and Management of the Mourning DoveStackpole Books, 1993 - 567 pages Nicely published (apparently with subsidy) by the Wildlife Management Institute, Washington, D.C. Comprehensively deals with the most numerous, widespread, and heavily hunted of North American gamebirds. Among the topics covered in 29 contributions: classification and distributions, migration, nesting, reproductive strategy, growth and maturation, feeding habits, diseases, survey procedures, population trends, care of captive mourning doves, and hunting. The final chapter identifies research and management needs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Historical Perspective | 7 |
Classification and Distribution | 47 |
LIFE HISTORY AND BIOLOGY | 55 |
Nesting and Production | 81 |
Reproductive Strategy | 105 |
The Crop Gland | 117 |
Growth Maturation and Molt | 129 |
Energetics Metabolism and Reproductive Physiology | 143 |
Analyses of Banding Data | 269 |
Population Characteristics and Trends in the Eastern Management Unit | 281 |
Population Characteristics and Trends in the Central Management Unit | 305 |
Population Characteristics and Trends in the Western Management Unit | 341 |
RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT | 377 |
Sexing Aging and Miscellaneous Research Techniques | 399 |
Mourning Dove Hunting Regulations | 429 |
Mourning Dove Harvest | 449 |
Behavior | 161 |
Foods and Feeding Ecology | 181 |
Diseases Parasites and Contaminants | 205 |
Other Natural Mortality | 225 |
POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND APPRAISAL | 231 |
Biological Evaluation of the Callcount Survey | 253 |
Common terms and phrases
Alabama America annual areas Arizona Auburn University average avian band-tailed pigeon Baskett behavior Bird Banding Laboratory Breeding Bird Survey breeding population California Call-count Survey Carolina Central Management Unit Coastal WMU columbids courtesy crop gland crop milk Dakota densities differences direct recoveries doves banded doves heard Dunks East CMU eastern eggs estimates feathers feeding female field Fish and Wildlife fledging Game gamebirds habitat Hanson and Kossack hatching-year hunters hunting season immatures incubation Interior WMU mated Mexico Mid-CMU migration Mirarchi Missouri molt mortality mourning dove hunting mourning dove populations mourning doves mourning doves banded nesting cycle nestlings nonhunting North pair passenger pigeon percent period Photo pigeons recovery rates reported ring doves routes sample Sayre seeds shooting South South Dakota species squabs survival rates Table tion Tomlinson trap trend U.S. Fish unmated males weight West CMU Western Management Unit white-winged doves Wildl Wildlife Service winter