Both also produce crop milk, a vital food source for baby pigeons. Learn about mourning dove eggs and baby mourning doves. If You Want to Help Pigeons, Don't Feed Them Those who are already pigeon ...

The mourning dove, Zenaidura macroura, closest relative of the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius resembles the passenger pigeon in shape and coloring. This has often led to mistaken ...

DESCRIPTION: The passenger pigeon was much larger than the somewhat similarly plumed mourning dove. Adapted for speed and maneuverability in flight, it had a small head and neck; long tail; long, ...