Dove, mourning

Mourning dove, Zenaida macroura New Mexico 1985-87 liver ... 

Best, T.L., T.E. Garrison, and C.G. Schmitt. 1992. Availability and ingestion of lead shot by mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) in southeastern New Mexico. Southwest. Natur. 37 37 287-292. 

Buerger, T.T., R.E. Mirarchi, and M.E. Lisano. 1986. Effects of lead shot ingestion on captive mourning dove survivability and reproduction. Jour Wildl. Manage. 50 1-8. 

Carrington, M.E. and R.E. Mirarchi. 1989. Effects of lead shot ingestion on free-ranging mourning doves. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 43 173-179. 

Castrale, J.S. 1989. Availability of spent shot in fields managed for mourning dove hunting. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 17 184-189. 

Castrale, J.S. and M. Oster. 1993. Lead and delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase in the blood of mourning doves dosed with lead shot. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 102 265-272. 

Kendall, R.J. and P.F. Scanlon. 1983. Histologic and ultrastructural lesions of mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) poisoned by lead shot. Poult. Sci. 62 952-956. 

Locke, L.N. and G.E. Bagley. 1967. Lead poisoning in a sample of Maryland mourning doves. Jour. Wildl. Manage. 31 515-518. 

Mourning dove, Zenaida macroura LD25-LD50 1,2, 4,5,20... 

Neff, J. A., 1949, Maggot infestation of nestling mourning doves. 

Waterfowl and mourning doves seem to be the birds most susceptible to lead shot poisoning. As many as 6.5 percent of mourning doves eat lead shot, which kills almost as many doves each year as hunters. ... 

Cook et al. (23) examined the relationship between the mourning dove (Zenalda macruora) In California and one of its favorite foods, the seeds of the dove weed (Eremocarpus setigera). They reported that two types of seeds are produced by this plant ... 

Figure 1. The responses of mourning doves (6) to mixtures of 30 mottled (M) seeds and 15 grey (G) seeds. Drawn from data presented hy Cook et at. ( 23).

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