If you're interested.....
http://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Hunting/Documents/Mourning%20Dove%20Population%20Status%20%20Report%202011.pdf
......17.5 million in US in 2011.......
Gives you an idea how many doves there are in the US.....
Cheers
Dave Lauten
On 11/21/2017 4:22 PM, Lars Per Norgren wrote:
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That's a substantial increase in bag limit from my youth. I suspect it is
seldom achieved,
and I'm confident the majority of license holders in the Beaver State never
shoot one in
their lives(like 90% or better). If one in 8 USA residents harvests a Mourning
Dove each
year, that's 40 million. Totally reasonable figure. Lars
On Nov 21, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Tom Crabtree wrote:
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On 11/21/2017 11:40 AM, Rusty Scalf wrote:
They are hunted in almost every state in the Union. In fact they are onlyThey are hunted in some parts of the USA and have a life expectancy
of 18 months.
not hunted in a couple of states if my memory serves me right (and Oregon
may be one of them, but I might be wrong about that).
Much to my astonishment, when I was a grad student at Univ of Wisconsin
Madison, I once picked up a large coffee table book on Mourning Doves (who
knew that that much information was available on Mourning Doves). I flipped
the book open and there in front of me was a graph of how many Doves were
harvest every year in the US. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe
the peak harvest was 40 million. For some reason that number seems
ridiculously huge, so I might be way off by a magnitude, but the bottom line
is that this is one of the most hunted species in the US.
Cheers
Dave Lauten
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