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Science Q and A!
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doves2Welcome to the Bird Page of the Ornate Bird Garden. I live in the American southwestern high desert.  The most common bird I see in the backyard is the mourning dove. They are everywhere, hooting and flapping and generally acting silly. They seem to hatch babies all through the year!  I have seen “micro-doves” with juvenile plumage as late as November.

I also have a lot of sparrows and red finches. Robins, of course. A few gold finches that are so tiny they look like hummingbirds.  Then I have a businesslike flock of pigeons that checks in with me daily as it makes its rounds through the bird feeders of the neighborhood.  I occasionally see more exotic birds:  a flicker (big gorgeous bird), a pair of ladder-back woodpeckers (very cute), scrub jays, and once a small falcon eating a pigeon in my ash tree!

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