EXPERIMENTAL TRANSFER OF TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE (RIVOLTA, 1878) FROM WHITE-WINGED DOVES TO MOURNING DOVES

A localized epizootic of trichomoniasis in mourning doves.

Trichomonas gallinae was present in 47% (57/121) of adult, 41% (7/17) of juvenile, and 29% (2/7) of nestling mourning doves (Zenaida ,nacroura) from Lincoln, Nebraska. Throat lesions were present in 5.9% (43/724) of the mourning doves trapped for banding. Two of four pigeons (Columba livia) possessed T. gallinae, but none contained throat lesions.

A Framework for Reproductive Models of Mourning Doves

Stable Isotopes Reveal That Saguaro Fruit Provides Different Resources to Two Desert Dove Species

During the Sonoran Desert summer, saguaro cacti produce an abundant fruit crop whose nutrients and water have distinctive stable isotope compositions. Carbon stable isotope analyses indicated that, at the peak of saguaro fruit production, saguaro fruit represented .90% of White-winged Dove and ;50% of Mourning Dove carbon incorporation. Over the entire summer, saguaro fruit comprised 50% and 14...

Intestinal Helminths in Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura) from Arizona, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee, U.S.A

We examined 115 hunter-killed mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) from 4 states (Arizona, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee, U.S.A.) in 1998 and 1999 to investigate geographical variation in the prevalence and intensity of intestinal helminth infections. Four intestinal helminth species were identified: Killigrewia delafondi, Ornithostrongylus crami, Ascaridia columbae, and Capillaria o...

Survey for Haemoproteus spp., Trichomonas gallinae, Chlamydophila psittaci, and Salmonella spp. in Galapagos Islands columbiformes.

Endemic free-ranging Galapagos doves (Zenaida galapagoensis) and introduced rock doves (Columba livia) were surveyed in several islands of the Galapagos archipelago to establish sample prevalence of hemoparasites, Trichomonas gallinae, Chlamydophila psittaci, and Salmonella species. A Haemoproteus sp., the only hemoparasite identified, was found in 89% of the Galapagos doves sampled but not in ...