What kind of bird is the laughing dove, and what are the methods for taming it?

What kind of bird is the laughing dove? Some friends living in the humid regions of the south may never have seen this bird and will be very curious, so let us get to know this bird together.

Although the laughing dove is called the laughing dove, it is actually a pinkish-brown dove; its entire head and neck are pale pink, the tips of its outer tail feathers are white, and it has a distinctive blue-gray wing patch. Because it looks brown overall, it was still named the laughing dove. The laughing dove is also known as the blue-shouldered dove, belongs to the class Aves, order Columbiformes, and can be considered a close relative of the pigeon.

The laughing dove generally lives in deserts, semi-deserts, oases, and places with low scrub, as well as near villages and small towns. Globally it is distributed in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Palestine, Syria, Australia and other places. They can basically be seen in the desert and semi-desert regions of Asia and Africa. In China, the laughing dove is mainly distributed in the Tianshan region of China's northwest and the various desert areas of Xinjiang.

The body length of the laughing dove is generally about 25 cm. Although it does not look large, this bird is very bold and is not afraid of people; even if you approach it, it will not immediately fly away, somewhat similar to the legendary silly roe deer. Laughing doves usually forage on the ground for plant seeds, fruits and buds, and they also especially like to eat grain, so they can occasionally be seen in oases, farmland and parks in desert regions.

However, because the laughing dove causes a fairly large degree of damage to grain, and because this bird is not afraid of people and also lives in groups, it is often hunted and its nests destroyed for warmth. After entering the new century, the large-scale use of chemical pesticides by humans has also had no small impact on the living environment of the laughing dove. For a period of time, laughing doves also became noticeably fewer.

In 2000, because of its own economic value, the laughing dove was included in the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State as Beneficial or of Important Economic or Scientific Research Value," so laughing doves can be raised artificially, and if you look carefully, you can even find laughing doves for sale on the market. So when a person is taming a laughing dove, what methods are there? How is it better to tame them?

For taming laughing doves, it is best to raise artificially bred doves; wild doves cannot be tamed. In the process of taming artificially bred doves, first, you should prepare a relatively large cage for the doves to leave them enough living space; second, do not feed them too much food that promotes fattening, especially high-fat food, which is very unsuitable for this kind of dove; third, do not feed them too much food with a high salt content, because this will not help the luster of their feathers at all. Finally, in the process of raising doves, you must pay attention to the local regulations on bird breeding and handle all kinds of certificates properly.

After reading this article, everyone should have some understanding of a few little facts about doves. Friends who love birds can go online to look up this kind of bird further and gain a deeper understanding of it.