ROCK+DOVE

Rock Dove Diet: Rock doves have a huge diet!!! They eat vegetables, seeds, grains, acorns, fruits, insects, worms, grubs, salt, and snails. Adult rock doves drink water and babies drink milk.

Lifespan \ Lifecycle There is a large number of species (pigeon / dove). 289!!! The female lay 1 to 2 (white) eggs. The incubation lasts 14 to 19 days.

http://www.askkids.com/fr?q=rock+dove&desturi=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samford.edu Behavior/Special Skills: Rock doves call with a soft coo, cuk, cuk, cuk, cooo. They form large flocks. All the rock doves come and the flock has 2,000,000 rock doves in the flock. The rock dove could fly 90 miles per hour! Some are social and some are not!





Predators/Defense: Rock doves have a lot of predators! A couple of it's predators is the owls, possums , raccoons , Peregrine falcons , and the hawks all prey on the rock dove. I think what rock doves do to defend them selves is to screech and to fly away or they could defend themselves with their claws.

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