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Video: Mourning Dove Time Lapse!

Last month John Huntington at Control Geek noticed mourning doves in one of his Windsor Terrace planters. He set up his camera to take a time lapse every day, and in it he even catches babies hatching!

He notes that the family rarely left their nest/his planter, and "even survived a hostile attack by another dove couple." Guess a good plot of New York real estate is hard to come by, even when you're a bird.

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  • Humptydank

    Wow, they're so much cleaner than pigeons.

    I had a pigeon family nest on my air conditioner, and by the time they left their nest was 90 percent poop.

    It was horrifying.

  • youngpro

    yeah they did that to me once. i opened the window and had to scrape away a layer of caked on poop from them and added a layer of clorox so they wouldnt come back.

  • militza

    "the horror! the horror!"

  • Jen S

    Nice! I love their coos.

  • royinhell

    Very cool! I had mourning doves do the same thing in a flower pot outside my window a few years ago- the female dove sits on the eggs all day, then the male takes over and sits all night. It was always fun to see the 'changing of the guard'... both would be there for a few minutes (catching up on their day?), then the one being relieved would fly away. They got so used to me (the pot was inches from my window) that I could almost touch the chick, but I resisted.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Awesome, thanks for sharing!!!!!

  • Guest

    What about the outcry over the dove on dove violence? Damn animals are inhumane, huh?

  • handsomedevil

    naw those doves are fine they are just doing their thing and nobody got hurt what would be really cool is if a pair of mourning doves pecked your eyes out LOL

  • Guest

    OMG that was so funny and original! You should try out for Last Comic Standing. Really! And guess what jerkoff, when humans eat meat, it's because they're doing what comes natural. You and felix are unnatural and should be removed from society before you hurt someone.

  • handsomedevil

    humans are capable of not eating meat you dont always have to do what your mamillian brain tells you to. the violent part of my reptillian brain would like to set your apartment on fire because you are glorrify animal abuse but that doesnt mean I'm going to do it or at least I probably wont LOL

  • Guest

    The fact that you believe you have a reptilian brain says it all...

  • youngpro

    even better if one pecked out your boobs.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    LOL

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