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Along with seeds and pellets, fruits and veggies add diversity to the dove’s diet. Offering it items like carrots, apples, broccoli, and kales provides the bird with various nutrients. Don’t feed your dove avocados as they contain a chemical, persin that is toxic and deadly to doves and other birds.
White-winged doves have a herbivorous (granivorous, frugivorous, nectarivorous) diet, feeding on a variety of seeds, grains, and fruits. Western populations migrate into the Sonoran Desert to breed during the hottest time of the year because they feed on pollen and nectar, and later on the fruits and seeds of the saguaro.
White-winged Doves feed on a variety of seeds, grain, and fruit that vary depending on their range and seasonal availability. They consume seeds and fruits of wild trees, grasses, and herbaceous plants, as well as those of ornamental cultivars.
Using a long‐term banding data set of white‐winged doves from across Texas collected by TPWD from 2007–2016, our objectives were to 1) estimate after‐hatch‐year (AHY) white‐winged dove primary feather molt rate and initiation, and 2) estimate hatch chronology to address the overarching question of how primary feather 2of10 | HALL ET AL.
White-winged Doves often eat at elevated bird feeders. They’re fond of seeds, including sunflower, milo, corn, safflower, and they may also eat berries from shrubs. White-winged Doves sometimes fly into windows when startled, so it’s important to make sure your windows are bird-safe.
White-winged doves are granivorous, feeding on a variety of seeds, grains, and fruits. Western white-winged doves ( Z. a. mearnsii ) migrate into the Sonoran Desert to breed during the hottest time of the year because they feed on pollen and nectar, and later on the fruits and seeds of the saguaro.
White-winged Doves eat a variety of grain, seeds, and fruit that vary depending on their seasonal availability. Unlike Mourning Doves, they commonly feed above ground level on cactus fruits, berries, and raised birdfeeders.
