Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

Mourning Dove photographed by Mark Curtis
Universal City · February 23, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 26.5M open records.

Records by month. January, 1,713,699 records. February, 2,172,399 records. March, 2,328,702 records. April, 3,383,673 records. May, 4,104,742 records. June, 2,438,130 records. July, 2,115,616 records. August, 2,123,245 records. September, 1,948,473 records. October, 1,516,470 records. November, 1,240,060 records. December, 1,445,663 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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