Thanks guys. My dad said there is a big white one with a black ring around the neck hanging around the house. Thought it was a pigeon, but said it was a dove. So he is gonna break out the pellet gun and try to get him.
I'm due for a good dove hunt. Might go visit Greg soon.
Thanks for the heads up on the taste and cooking tips.
Kique
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Haven't tasted any difference between any of the doves. My favorite way to eat em is to salt&pepper then brown then throw in the crockpot with cream of whatever soup and some onion, cook for a couple hours then throw in some taters, go till taters are done and eat
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You can't tell the difference in taste from white wings and mourning doves if you wrap them in a pepper and bacon and grill them. I've eaten as many of them as I have white wings and there's no difference to me... Grub up...
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....not really,.....I can just live trap them here.
The Gambels (2-300) are off limits here,.....that's just the way it's gotta' be.
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We've not seen much difference in the taste from Mournings, but they are a bit larger, which is good. They're a bit slower, too, which is realllly good for me..
We're gonna try the Atomic Buffalo turds this year. Just a bit different from the way we usually cook 'em.
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Thanks guys. My dad said there is a big white one with a black ring around the neck hanging around the house. Thought it was a pigeon, but said it was a dove. So he is gonna break out the pellet gun and try to get him.
I'm due for a good dove hunt. Might go visit Greg soon.
Thanks for the heads up on the taste and cooking tips.
Kique
Your description doesn't sound like a collared dove. They aren't white. They're about the color of a mourning dove, maybe a slightly lighter brown. Also, they don't have a ring around the neck. It's a black stripe across the back of the neck. It doesn't come around to the front. They can be recognized by their call, though. It's a 3 note coo. 2 coo's together, followed by a slight pause and a 3d coo. It sound's nothing like a mourning dove and is distinctly different than pigeons.
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In the past few years I have had collared doves (two or three pairs) visit my feeder and even nest on the ground in my bushes.
Here are a couple of interesting links to the collared doves in the U.S. and a piece about the first reported sighting of a collared dove in Oklahoma back in 1995.
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Thanks guys. My dad said there is a big white one with a black ring around the neck hanging around the house. Thought it was a pigeon, but said it was a dove. So he is gonna break out the pellet gun and try to get him.
I'm due for a good dove hunt. Might go visit Greg soon.
Thanks for the heads up on the taste and cooking tips.
Kique
Your description doesn't sound like a collared dove. They aren't white. They're about the color of a mourning dove, maybe a slightly lighter brown. Also, they don't have a ring around the neck. It's a black stripe across the back of the neck. It doesn't come around to the front. They can be recognized by their call, though. It's a 3 note coo. 2 coo's together, followed by a slight pause and a 3d coo. It sound's nothing like a mourning dove and is distinctly different than pigeons.
There's tons of collared doves that roost in big dead tree behind my house and there's one that's all white. I need to break out the spotting and see if has a collar or not. It's the same shape and size of the other doves but I don't know if it's an albino collared dove or a white dove that somehow got loose.
We have them here and they range in color from the normal dove to mostly white. They cook up just like doves as well as feral rock doves. Marinate them in what ever you like,but we take the meat off the breast bone.
There's tons of collared doves that roost in big dead tree behind my house and there's one that's all white. I need to break out the spotting and see if has a collar or not. It's the same shape and size of the other doves but I don't know if it's an albino collared dove or a white dove that somehow got loose.
I think collared doves, the white phase, are the ones that they release at weddings and stuff, and how they got here.
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The difference being about like wild versus domestic turkeys in that domestic Ringnecks are dumb as a post when they get loose and rarely survive.
So, your big white dove could be just a pale (leucistic) version of a wild Collared Dove, an escaped Ringneck, or maybe a hybrid.
All three possibilities are edible.
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