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HOME INTRODUCTION
• Welcome. Anniversary video. Conservation & protection statistics. Site history.

INTRODUCTION
• General introductory information regarding the care of mourning doves.

SITE CONTENTS
• Alphabetical linked listing of key words & topics of interest.

LEGAL
• Legal statisitics with regard to the hunting, keeping, baiting, trapping of mourning doves and mortality statistics with regard to life-span a& expectancy.

HABITAT & BEHAVIOUR
• HABITAT
• LIFE-SPAN
• MATING
• NESTING
• YOUNG
• ADULTS
• MIGRATION
• VISION
• DIET
• HEARING
• VOCALISATION
• BATHING
• FLIGHT
• REST
• MOULTING/MOLTING

HOME CARE
• INTRODUCTION
• CAGES: Minimum requirements including size and contents.
• COMPANIONSHIP: The importance of companionship. Abandonment can lead to death.
• CHARACTERISTICS: Habitat, bathing, life-span, &c.
• EMERGENCY MEDICAL: Suggestions for emergency treatments.
• ENVIRONMENT: Humidity, lighting, sounds, tempearture (environmental).
• NUTRITION: Necessary and recommended food to properly supply necessary nutrition.
• OPEN CAGE: Leaving the cage open for a mourning dove, when, how, what precautions must be taken. • STATISTICS & LEGALITIES: Hunting statistics and protetive legislation protecting mmourning doves.
• TOXINS: House-hold toxins and toxic plants.


JOURNAL
• A daily account of progress, developments, antics, learning, bonding, LOVE and COMPANIONSHIP.

PORTFOLIO
• Photos, presented in monthly pages and "slide presentations that can be played either monthly or through all. Videos taken of "events" and daily activities.

COPYRIGHT
• COPYRIGHT STATEMENT FOR ALL SITE CONTENT.
• ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

SITEMAP
• CONTENT LIST AND OVER-VIEW OF SITE

BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Linkes index of sites visited in research related to information posted on site pages.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL
Suggestions and recommendations for the immediate attention to topics.
Professional avian veterinary intervention is stressed in ALL cases.
• BEAK CARE: Hazards of over-growth and preventative actions to be taken.
• BLEEDING: Dangers and threats to life, responses to bleeding.
• DROPPINGS: The best indication of a mourning dove's health.
• FOOD & NOURISHMENT: Recommended and suggested foods that provide essential proper nourishment.
• FRACTURES: LEG & WING: Suggestions of care in the absence of a qualified avian veterinarian.
• FROSTBITE: Prevalence of frost-bite in mourning doves in the wild.
• HOUSE-HOLD HAZARDS: Toxins including plants.
• HUMIDITY: Median required humidity in treatment.
• ILLNESS & INJURIES
• MOULTING/MOLTING: Effect and importance of and necessary approaches during, including diet.
• PAIN: Affirmation of the fact that mourning doves sense pain.
• REST: Mourning doves require 10-14 hours daily.
• TEMPERATURE: Median room temperature required for convalescence.
• TOES: Care and maintenance of toes and nails.

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