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This isn't at all as exciting as the Inca Dove report at Springfield's MDC Nature Center but it is somewhat related: When I came home from work just now (Friday) there was a couple of Mourning Doves copulating on the patio picnic bench. MODO's have been cooing for several weeks now here in Joplin and also Neosho. Plus, also in Joplin today , there was a broken egg shell of a Rock Pigeon that may have rolled off of a ledge of a downtown building. My first "egg shell" of the year. Rock Pigeons nest nearly year around. I have observed active nests for all months of the year here in Joplin except November - including one on a CBC a few years back. Doves and pigeons, in general, Family Columbidae, tend to have a long nesting season. Good birding, Larry H. Joplin (sw) MO. __________________________________________________ ########################################################### * Audubon Society of Missouri's * * Wild Bird Discussion Forum * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To subscribe or unsubscribe, click here: * * https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To access the list archives, click here: * * http://po.missouri.edu/archives/mobirds-l.html * * * * To access the Audubon Society of Missouri Web * * Site: http://mobirds.org * ###########################################################