The living habits of mountain turtledoves

The mountain turtledove is a bird of the genus Pigeon family, with a total of 6 subspecies. The body length is about 32 cm, the claws of the mouth are straight or slightly curved, the base of the mouth is soft, covered with wax film, and the tip of the mouth is dilated and horny. The neck and feet are short, and the tibia is completely feathered. The dark striped body of the upper body of the scallop has brown feather edges, gray waist, nearly black tail feathers and light gray tail tips. The lower body is mostly pink and feet are red. There was a high-frequency "poof" sound during takeoff. In pairs or alone, most of them feed on the ground in open farming areas, villages and front and back houses, around monasteries, or near small ditches. Most of the food is cereal. Distributed in the Himalayas, India, Northeast Asia, Japan, Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Northern birds travel south for the winter.

Habit

Mountain spot doves often move in pairs or in small groups, sometimes inhabiting trees in pairs, or flying and foraging together in pairs. If the female is injured, the male flies back several times and hovers and cries over the same place. Very active in the ground activities, often small steps forward rapidly, walking while foraging, head swinging back and forth. When flying, the wings move frequently, straight and quickly. Sometimes glide, especially when flying from a tree to the ground. The song is low and sounds like 'ku-ku-ku'' repeated many times.

Foraging

Mountain turtledoves mainly eat the fruits, seeds, grass seeds, young leaves and buds of various plants, as well as crops, such as rice, corn, sorghum, millet, soybeans, mung beans, rape seeds, and sometimes Lepidoptera larvae, beetles and other insects. Most of the foraging is on the forest ground, forest edge and farmland.

Perch

Mountain spot doves often inhabit low mountains and hills, plains and mountain broad-leaved forests, mixed forests, secondary forests, orchards and farmland, as well as bamboo forests and trees next to houses.