Dove Pictures and Videos of them Moving

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Wow. Their wings are amazing. You can't see it in full speed videos. I need to find a way of recreating this movement without it being too complicated and expensive.

The material for this animal needs to be simple and light. I might see if I can use paper or something like paper that is light.

Dove

This familiar medium-size dove, with its slim body and tapered tail, is the most common and widespread dove in most of North America. Wings make a fluttering whistle when the bird takes flight. Polytypic. Length 12" (31 cm).

Identification Head and underparts unmarked pale pinkish brown, but with black crescent framing lower edge of auricular; upper parts darker and grayer brown; prominent black spots on coverts and tertials, and flight feathers contrasting darker; long pointed tail dark, with black subterminal spots and bold white tips on all but the central rectrices. Adult male: iridescent blue and pink on hind neck, with pinkish bloom extending onto breast; iris blackish; orbital skin pale blue; bill dark; and feet red. Adult female: similar to adult male, but with reduced iridescence and pinkish bloom. Juvenile: generally darker and browner; pale buff-gray fringes on most of the feathers give the bird a “scaly” appearance; dark crescent below auricular extends forward toward the base of the bill; cheek area pale.

Geographic Variation Five subspecies; 3 in North America, with carolinensisbreeding in the East, and marginella breeding in the West, and nominatemacroura from the West Indies recently invading the Florida Keys; not separable in the field.

Voice Call: a mournful oowoo-woo-woo-woo.

Status and Distribution Common throughout the United States and southern Canada south through Central America. Prefers open areas, including rural and residential areas, avoiding thick forests; normally feeds on the ground. Breeding: nest is a loose platform of twigs placed at various heights above the ground, flimsy enough that the eggs are frequently visible from below. Migration: highly migratory, with birds breeding at the northern limit of the range believed to winter in Mexico, but those breeding farther south moving less, with birds present all year in the southern half of the United States. Vagrant: casual to Alaska and northern Canada; once in Great Britain.

Population The species is a well-managed game bird, with about 45 million killed by hunters in North America each year.

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