Identification - The Mourning Dove is slightly larger than a robin and has a long pointed tail with white tips on the outer feathers. It also has a slender neck and small head with a small black spot just below the ear.
Morsels - Doves and pigeons feed their nestlings a substance called "pigeon milk." As the adults near the end of their incubation duties, the inner lining of the their crop thickens by as much as 20 times. When the young hatch and begin to feed, this lining sloughs off the crop walls periodically to form the pigeon milk, a curd or cottage cheese-like substance that is very nutritious. The young stick their bills into the adult's throat and the adult regurgitates the "milk".