“Most interesting, the oldest recorded mourning dove was shot in Florida in 1998, but banded in Georgia in 1968. It was over 30 years old. (That) is just crazy considering the average lifespan ...

A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish gray above ... and from southern Florida south through Central America to Panama. Breeding: nest is a fragile platform of twigs in ...

A large, pale gray-buff dove with a black collar, noticeably larger than the mourning dove ... which spread to Florida in the late 1970s. It was quickly established there, then spread westward ...