| 单词 | mourning dove |
| 例句 | She was smaller than Madam and wore a silk gown the color of a mourning dove and gray lace gloves. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The melody lifts me even though it is blue and slow, like the mourning dove’s call that Dad and I heard once. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She saw mourning doves peck at carrion on her doorstep and visited the botanicas for untried potions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, she’d gaze out an open upstairs window, and her sighs would float to us on the breeze, melancholy as the call of a mourning dove. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She suddenly felt shy around Diana, who seemed even more imposing away from the looms when her lovely, elegant voice was pitched rich and low like the call of a mourning dove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Outside, a mourning dove cooed, the low hum of a lawn mower rose, a passing cloud cast them into shadow for a moment, then drifted away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A pair of mourning doves hunted for food near a shaggy boxwood hedge, cooing to each other in their soft melancholy voices. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The tone was soft, like the call of a mourning dove. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sun was climbing, and he could hear warbling meadow birds and mourning doves calling from the tall grass beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Through the thin walls, I hear Pop's snores, Nan shifting in her sleep, a mourning dove's croon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z By jumped up and said, “That’s a mourning dove, they’re the coolest birds in the world, don’t nothing shake them up!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A mourning dove called from the tall grass along the wash, and below the cliffs the speckled cattle were grazing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Except for the rustle of the swallows, and a mourning dove calling from the mouth of the canyon, it was quiet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A breeze was coming in the back, door, and some mourning doves that had nested on the back porch were cooing, making that slippery, burbling sound that Calder always associated with summer in his neighborhood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Outside, a mourning dove cooed from the bird feeder and a Cadillac glided to a dignified stop at the corner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We hear the soft sound of mourning doves and the mumblings of chickens in a nearby coop, and sometimes the whirring of cicadas. ‘The Yearling’ author’s homestead is a doorway to a quirky Florida subculture 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Some people are annoyed by the song of the mourning dove, which will more than double its range. Global warming will mean trouble for birds California quail scampered around, and the cooing of mourning doves welcomed the day. For summer fun in Potholes State Park, just add water (and sand dunes) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Some of those flowers will be picked and proffered, ice cream will be eaten and remembrances shared before this gentle movie rests in the poignancy of a mourning dove’s call. ‘A Love Song’ Review: When Moving Forward Means Looking Back 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z And some of the biggest potential winners aren’t exactly birds that people like: Species such as the turkey vulture, the American crow and the mourning dove will expand their ranges tremendously. Global warming will mean trouble for birds The lament of a mourning dove is accompanied by the shrill urgency of a red-winged blackbird flitting between field and power line. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Juncos and mourning doves came and sat there every morning, and, when the seed ran out, I bought more. Christine Who Fed the Hungry 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Visitors may see hummingbirds and warblers, as well as year-round residents like robins, mourning doves and Northern mockingbirds. Go Fish! Festival Casts a Wide Net for Young New Yorkers 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The mourning doves look broody, and formations of migrating geese are stirring up the clouds. Spring is nearly here. Have you finished your winter chores? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Before Merlin, I’d always assumed the distinct “coo” I heard was from a mourning dove. Who’s that singing? As fall migration arrives, apps that ID birds by sound have taken off 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z There are rock wrens, nighthawks, mourning doves and lark buntings. North American grassland birds in peril, spurring all-out effort to save birds and their habitat 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Your best option for recording low-frequency sounds, like those from owls, mourning doves and grouse, is a shotgun microphone. How to connect with nature by recording 'utterly magical' birdsong 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z I also identified and sketched a heretofore elusive Engelmann oak while listening to the coo-coo-coo of a mourning dove and mellifluous chirping by other more high-pitched birdies. 8 L.A. trees to love that aren't jacarandas 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z What is the mourning dove so sad about? Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Tomorrow: Defenders of the mourning dove fight back. Perspective | Who can say why some things just rub us the wrong way? 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Still, God forbid I ever see a mourning dove carrying an Argus C3. Perspective | Some people are irritated by the weirdest things. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The oblivious mourning dove outweighs many rivals, but proves relatively peaceful. Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder? A massive data analysis reveals the answer 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Hearing the mourning dove again was a revelation, but with it came a realization: I’d not listened to one in many years. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z I described the mourning dove as “stupid,” “fearful” and “chubby.” Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z My list of unreasonable antipathies includes mourning doves and Argus C3 cameras. Perspective | Who can say why some things just rub us the wrong way? 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Was my mother frightened by a flock of mourning doves while I was in utero? Perspective | Some people are irritated by the weirdest things. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z I am learning to identify them; sparrows, goldfinches, mourning doves, etc. It's been one year. Here's how our readers feel about L.A. now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z But I have become preoccupied by the apparent absence of the mourning dove. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z When they walk, mourning doves may seem awkward, Jim wrote, “but if you see them as they fly, they are lovely.” Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z It plays on loop in North America’s boreal forests, a classic as familiar as the chickadee’s trill and the mourning dove’s dirge. Canada’s Sparrows Are Singing a New Song. You’ll Hear It Soon. 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z As a matter of fact, he said, a few years ago he didn’t like mourning doves. Perspective | Some people are irritated by the weirdest things. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z I raced outside and discovered it’s a mourning dove; its call is frequently confused with that of an owl. What bird is that? 7 apps that will answer your birding questions 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z There are no reliable data on Los Angeles’ mourning dove population. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Many different birds frequent the area around Beth Hughitt’s Luray, Va., home: eagles, hummingbirds, orioles, bluebirds, blue jays, goldfinches, swallows, all kinds of woodpeckers — and mourning doves. Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z There’s the quirky squeak of the American goldfinch, owl-like coos of mourning doves and the whinnying of the downy woodpecker as Central Park offers avid urban birders some respite. Hopeful birdsong, foreboding sirens: A pandemic in sound 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z A pair of cardinals visit regularly, as do mourning doves, including one who comes alone. Perspective | An award-winning nature photo was snapped in the wilds of Fairfax County 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Species like the mourning dove, the bird most often struck at Lambert, like to roost on the warm pavement of the runway and, as Sonnek puts it diplomatically, “they’re not the smartest bird out there.” Biologists work to prevent bird strikes at St. Louis airport 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z And mourning doves are far from endangered: They are one of the most abundant bird species in North America and found across the U.S. year-round. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “There’s a fun fact about mourning doves that I thought I’d share with you in case it might help you appreciate them just a tiny little bit more,” Beth wrote. Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In 2015, an ornithologist filmed a desert woodpecker as it pecked through the skulls of mourning dove chicks to eat their baby brains. Woodpeckers show possible brain damage like that in football players 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “You mourning doves are so pathetic,” sniffed the goldfinch. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Summer is mourning doves and the clattering of songbirds at sunrise. My daughter's been stealing my wine and other confessions to kick-off summer 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z There are tens of millions of mourning doves, also called turtle doves, in the U.S., and it is legal to hunt them in most states, including California. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But the mourning dove retreats for no bird. Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Rogers deploys several original samples, drawn from recordings of a mourning dove, found conversations from a marketplace in Morocco, finger snaps, and the patting of her own thighs through her jeans. Maggie Rogers, an Artist of her Time 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Deep coos of mourning doves, soprano trills of mockingbirds, rat-a-tat-tats of a woodpecker greet him. West Dallas residents share stories of neighborhood, changes 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Among the cat victims were mourning doves, blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels and rarer animals, such as purple gallinules, a kind of water bird. A wildlife rehab center confirms that cats are killers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Fish and Wildlife Service report show that mourning dove populations are declining in many states, including California. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z And this, Beth said, makes the mourning dove more fearsome than fearful. Perspective | Winged victory: Readers stick up for the lowly mourning dove 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The idea, said GFP wildlife biologist Corey Huxoll, is to gather information on mourning dove movements and populations as a way to track the species’ health, much like the bands used on ducks and geese. Experts trap mourning doves in South Dakota to track species 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Then faster, passing up through a tiny pine forest, hearing mourning doves coo loudly at one another among the strange bonsai tangle of the scrub oaks. On Santa Cruz Island, they killed the cows, sheep, and bees. Now it’s time to finish the job 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Their quarry—including gray catbirds, song sparrows, and mourning doves—were soon released. Ornithologists set their nets in Washington, D.C.—to catch birds and attention 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The report said the state had experienced a nearly 4% drop in its mourning dove population each year over the preceding 10 years. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Although it is legal to hunt mourning doves during the appropriate hunting season, it is unlawful to hunt them using bait. California hunter convicted of ‘baiting’ mourning doves 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Everybody thinks a mourning dove is an owl,” Rich said. Idaho’s Treasure Valley is a paradise for birders 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Annual bird counts indicate that the mourning dove is now one of the most abundant birds in the Empire State. The Mourning Dove, a Melancholy Crooner 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The birds included Amazon parrots, blue-headed parrots and cockatiels as well as finches, canaries, mourning doves and lovebirds. Over 200 birds, many exotic, rescued from back room of store 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z I had called Garrett to ask about the local mourning dove population. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Federal authorities say that on Sept. 1, 2015, the opening day of mourning dove season, Filter went to the baited field with three hunting buddies and they shot and killed 34 mourning doves. California hunter convicted of ‘baiting’ mourning doves 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The mourning dove tapers in and tapers out, and it’s softer.” Idaho’s Treasure Valley is a paradise for birders 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z As if aware of the flimsiness of their own work, mourning doves often repurpose abandoned robin or mockingbird nests, topping the original nest with additional materials. The Mourning Dove, a Melancholy Crooner 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Many who have heard the melancholy cry of the mourning dove might wonder: Do birds grieve for their loved ones? Do Crows Hold Funerals for Their Dead? 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Unlike the mourning dove, it has long shown clear signs of decline here. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z For the average shooter on a good day, 75 cartridges of number 7 or 8 shot is spent harvesting the legal limit of 15 mourning doves. RUPLI: Dove shooting: A family affair 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z An officer removed a string on a mourning dove that was hanging from a tree branch. D.C. Animal Watch 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Though the mourning dove may be known for its grace, a dove nest is a somewhat haphazard construction. The Mourning Dove, a Melancholy Crooner 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The mourning dove season will open statewide at noon on Sept. 4. State officials announce migratory bird seasons 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Plenty of bird species are doing just fine in L.A. — and some far worse than the mourning dove. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The proposed dates for both mourning dove and Eurasian collared dove are Sept. 5 through Oct. Commission proposes 2015-16 dove season in Arkansas 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The federal law classifies mourning doves as migratory game birds. Hunter sentenced in Kansas bird hunting case 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The song of the mourning dove is a melancholy counterpoint to the dazzling chorus of migrant bird calls now just beginning to fill the earliest spring air. The Mourning Dove, a Melancholy Crooner 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “It’s the sound of a mourning dove — their climate potential is going to increase.” Climate Change Will Disrupt Half of North America’s Bird Species, Study Says 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Among the things that are gone: the street trees that sheltered the mourning doves of my youth. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The passenger pigeon was about three times larger than a mourning dove and its diet consisted primarily of beechnuts, acorns and American chestnuts. Passenger pigeons died out 100 years ago 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The first to rise are blue jays, mockingbirds, starlings and mourning doves, he said. New York Today: Early Birds 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Could it be that mourning doves are mourning for . . . themselves? In Washington region, spirit of Saint Francis is alive and well when it comes to birds Owens recalls how she used to climb the tamarisk tree with her cousin to look for the nests of mourning doves and pigeons — until the suicide of the 16-year-old girl. The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children 2014-03-09T22:38:17Z But over in Culver City, Jordan is lucky: He’s heard mourning doves, as recently as a month or so ago. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z There, on my ledge – 11 floors up – is a delicate, cool-gray mourning dove. City Room: A Mourning Dove Ring Tone 2013-07-23T13:09:54Z Many of the birds that used to be common in the Lower Ninth — like mourning doves and house sparrows — had almost entirely disappeared and only now are beginning to return in small numbers. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z The mourning dove is a cosmopolitan species found in greater or less numbers in all sections. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Distribution and migration of races of the mourning dove. Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico 2011-11-15T03:00:17.973Z And I worry that my children will never hear the mourning dove. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The plaintive cry of the mourning dove rang out, followed by the cheerful piping of a cardinal. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z An increasing number of exotic Eurasian collared doves are being observed throughout the region and since hunting for them is open year-round without bag limits, they might provide opportunity when native mourning doves migrate out. Transition into fall still leaves plenty to do in the outdoors 2011-09-04T15:09:12Z The mourning dove is so well known in every country that a description of it is unnecessary. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z The two loaded four cats and two mourning doves onto the rig and made their way back down a mountain. ATVs, often reviled as destructive in Vermont, win praise for disaster relief after Irene 2011-09-02T10:26:06Z You ought to hear his whole repertoire—orioles, thrushes, mourning doves, nightingales, mocking birds. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z “It is worse than a mourning dove,” complained the 139 girl from the East. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z Meanwhile, Finger reports good numbers of mourning doves observed throughout the Potholes, Desert, and Gloyd Seeps units of the Columbia Basin Wildlife Area. Transition into fall still leaves plenty to do in the outdoors 2011-09-04T15:09:12Z The white-winged dove is nearly one-half larger than the common mourning dove. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Wren, mourning dove, house finch, turkey buzzard— for your entertainment, I sing the words of old fifties songs, use baby talk, croon as I walk the field beneath great blizzard- dreaming clouds. David Huddle: “Roanoke Pastorale.” 2010-05-24T04:00:00Z Another nest, and a mourning dove's, one of the most gentle and winning of birds! A-Birding on a Bronco The mourning dove lays her eggs on a frail scaffolding of cedar twigs, with the merest suggestion of padding. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road The Northcentral region has many hunting opportunities during the month of September with seasons for deer, black bear, forest grouse, mourning dove, cottontail rabbit and snowshoe hare all opened Sept. Transition into fall still leaves plenty to do in the outdoors 2011-09-04T15:09:12Z Autumn feeding and flocking habits of the mourning dove in southern Missouri. Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves A mourning dove spoke to its mate among the thick trees, low and sad, but it is only their way. The Eye of Dread The only sound was the cry of the mourning doves, answering each other’s plaintive calls. 'Me--Smith' Such is a cuckoo’s nest, such a mourning dove’s or a heron’s; merely a flat platform of a few interlaced twigs, through which the eggs are visible from below. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The leaves of the cottonwood trees before the house were never still, and often the cooing of mourning doves would come down to him from some high bough. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands A study of the nesting of mourning doves. Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves Showers of rain alternated with vivid sunshine, and through the air, heavy with perfume, the mourning dove sang with sad insistence as if to remind us of the impermanency of May's ineffable loveliness. A Daughter of the Middle Border I amused myself here on a scorching evening with looking about me, as well as the heat would permit; and here I first heard and first saw that curious little Canadian bird, the mourning dove. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 The sobbing cry of the mourning dove, which they had been hearing all day, suddenly assumed new meaning. Other Main-Travelled Roads A covey of mourning doves fly to the water's edge, slake their thirst in their dainty way, and flutter off. The North American Indian Preliminary report on some of the important foods of the mourning dove in the southeastern U. S. Trans. 3rd N. Amer. Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves Bluejays are great seed planters, also mourning doves; and the wild pigeons, now extinct, were great planters of many nut trees. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Well may the mourning dove haunt the villages of the Five Nations! Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Unfortunately, his radiant fancy wrought in baseless visions and the fires of the storm had burned away that brilliant rainbow before Peace came, as a mourning dove with shadowy wings hovering over a Nation's grave. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The mourning dove sounds its melancholy note from the forest, and the children take up the call. The North American Indian Plaintive bird songs were heard from the treetops, and among them those of the mourning dove, whose solemn, funereal note sent shudders through the heart of the trembling fugitive. The Redemption of David Corson Maud was the mourning dove seeking its bower of shade: she used to fancy herself a nun, and followed the prescribed duties of the house as faithfully as Sister Grace herself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 The results have disclosed many mourning doves, but not one pigeon. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Manitou graciously allowed the poor lost soul to find a voice for its woes in the note of the dove and henceforth she was the mourning dove. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie There was a gentle cooing of pigeons, and from the green depths of the big canon arose the sobbing wood note of a mourning dove. Burning Daylight A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth. The Harvester She was as out of place in it as a mourning dove in a city mob. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 E'en the wild birds of prey mate happily, only I, poor mourning dove, alone among all beings alive, dwell apart. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) He never spoke to his men except to roar at them like a raging lion, and he never addressed us except to coo as softly as the mourning dove. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front When in the languid eve I hear the wailing Of the uncomforted sad mourning dove, Whose grief, like mine, seems deep as unavailing, What will I do with all this wealth of love? Yesterdays A robin repeated his evening song softly from a maple near it, and a mourning dove began his meditative cooing. See America First From these trees came the far-away, melancholy cooing of mourning doves, and little owls perched in them and called tremulously at night. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography The pollen-dusted bees Search for the honey-lees That linger in the last flowers of September, While plaintive mourning doves Coo sadly to their loves Of the dead summer they so well remember. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 From somewhere came the plaint of a mourning dove. The Valley of the Moon The song of a blue bird, with its softly warbled notes fell upon our ear, and the dreamy threnody of a mourning dove made a soft accompaniment. See America First |
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