White-winged Dove

The White-winged Dove (known in some communities as the zenaida asiatica) is a summer resident here at St. Edward’s University. This delicate bird tends to keep a consistent migration pattern, traveling south towards Mexico in the fall and nesting in southwestern states during spring and summer. Making homes along streams, river woods, groves, brush lands, and a few deserts, these creatures tend to gravitate toward semi-open habitats that can provide them sufficient resources. My encounter with the white-winged dove was mainly a result of their crowing calls. At first, I found it difficult to locate the bird because of how well it blended into the trees. Their calls were the only clues I had to follow, daring me to find them using my ears rather than my eyes. Once I located one, I scrambled to photograph it as it fed on the flowers and fruit of the trees, its normal diet. They are an abundant and adaptive species that has greatly fascinated me.

Source: http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/white-winged-dove

Observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5434085