Description

This male mourning dove feeds his hour old hatchling for the first time. He also is sitting on a second egg, which hasn’t hatched, yet. The adult’s head bobbed up and down during the feeding; the hatchling following the movement. The body of the adult was heaving as well; regurgitating. I have read that this regurgitation is the production of “pigeon’s milk” for the youngling.

Category

Feeding Time

Species

• Mourning Dove

Tags

• baby
• bird
• bobbing head
• feeding
• hatchling
• mourning dove
• Nesting
• pigeon milk
• regurgitation