Migration, Harvest, and Population Characteristics of Mourning Doves Banded in the Western Management Units, 1964-1977

摘要

An analysis of banding data for mourning doves from the Western Management Unit (WMU) yielded data about habitats, hunting regulations, and harvest in the WMU; distribution and derivation of band recoveries in and from the WMU; distribution of mourning dove harvest in Latin America from the WMU; chronology of migration; survival and recovery rates; effects of hunting on WMU dove populations; and an indirect estimate of the nationwide mourning dove population. Comparisons of these data were made with similar data from a companion study in the Central Management Unit.