Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Because they eat cereal grains, mourning doves can occasionally become pests of crops. (Basket et al., 1993; U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007)
Negative Impacts: crop pest
- Basket, , Sayre, Tomlins, Sayre. 1993. Ecology and management of the Mourning Dove. Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books.
