Out of the some 30 species of birds — songbirds, woodpeckers and others — that may visit feeders in Georgia during winter, the mourning dove is the only one officially designated as a “game ...
Polytypic. Length 11". A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish gray above and a paler gray below; white ends on the greater coverts form prominent patches on the wings ...
noticeably larger than the mourning dove. There is also a naturally occurring cream-colored variant, and this species is known to hybridize with the ringed turtle-dove, so plumage variation will ...