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Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
Order
COLUMBIFORMES
– Family
COLUMBIDAE
Authors: Mirarchi, R. E., and T. S. Baskett
Revisors: Otis, David L., John H. Schulz, and David Miller

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Acknowledgments

Review of the manuscript by Gary Hepp, Geoffrey Hill, and 2 anonymous referees was appreciated. Special thanks to Sandy Clark for administrative services. Illustrations presented in Figures 5, 6, 8, and 9 by Harold D. Irby and Charles W. Schwartz reprinted from Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove with permission of the Wildlife Management Institute. Sound spectrograms prepared by the staff of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics (BLB Nos. 14072 and 15944). Contribution No. 15–944829 of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, and a contribution of the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (National Biological Survey, Missouri Department of Conservation, University of Missouri, and Wildlife Management Institute cooperating).

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