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The Inca Dove has been expanding its range in Texas since it was first collected at Laredo in 1866 (Butcher 1868). It next appeared at Austin in 1889 and by the early 1900s was breeding at San Antonio, New Braunfels, Austin and Waco.
Inca doves are tiny gray pigeon-like birds with long tails. Their outer tail feathers are white. They have rusty wing patches easily seen when they fly. Inca's have a distinctive fish scale pattern on their breast, head and back feathers. Life History This common Southwest species is one of the most desert-adapted of the family.
1 sty 2019 · We provide an analysis of apparent survival for Inca Dove (Columbina inca) in Galveston, Texas. We aged and banded 24 hatch-year and 103 after-hatch-year doves during 19801990.
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For Jong years the Inca dove (Scardafella inca) or Mexican dove, as it is often called, was confined to a region between San Antonio and the Rio Grande and southward into Mexico, Bexar county was perhaps the northern limit in Texas.
Observations of wild Inca Doves in southern Dona Ana County, New Mexico, Travis and San Patricia counties, Texas, and southern Sonora, Mexico, form the basis for this report. These doves are notable for their apparent preference for living in modified urban parkland.
16 maj 2023 · Texas is home to eight dove species, and only three are protected from hunting. Among the three is the Inca Dove. Austin’s most well-known doves are the White-winged Dove and the Mourning Dove. The Inca Dove, however, can be spotted year-round in more urban and suburban areas, thickets, woodland edges, and savannas.
