I have a question concerning mourning doves?

Question

Yesterday, I saw a mourning dove sitting on a wire in my backyard, and it was swaying back and forth. I thought it might be stuck somehow, but within a minute, it laid an egg that fell to the ground and smashed. I checked out the egg, it had a yolk, and looked just like a chicken egg. Does anyone know why it did that?

Answer 1

All eggs will look the same inside. The yok in all eggs is what gives nourishment to the growning chick. It does happen a bird will lay an egg while on a perch. The egg generally is no good.


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Answer 2

I saw the same thing, sitting in my sister's backyard with my niece. The bird was swaying back and forth for about 5 minutes or longer and the egg just fell and broke. The dove flew away and the girls went back to swimming in the pool. The egg unfortunately could not be saved. A sad waste of a life. Popsicles were passed out to all to relieve the pain.........

Answer 3

It might be a young mourning dove and hasn't been laying very long, most animals do have certain instincts, but in the case of birds some may not always nest just to lay an egg if the egg is not fertilized. A yoke is just a sign of a fertilizable egg; it doesn't mean it’s been fertilized.

Answer 4

Mourning Dove prefer to nest on the horizontal branches of pine and cedar trees, but will nest in shrubs and even on the ground. Doves do not nest in tree cavities or nest boxes. Perhaps the dove thought the wire was a large enough horizontal area to hold the egg.

Answer 5

that's available that this became right into a known 365 days woman, meaning she became into green in breeding. If she became into off the nest for a protracted quantity of time and the eggs have been cooled in any respect they expired on their very very own. that's exceedingly possibly that a predator got here alongside and snatched the eggs, it happens all the time. Crows, Ravens, Jays, Rats, Squirrels, Lizards, Raccoons, and Opossums to call some will take eggs from a nest in a heartbeat.

Answer 6

I would say the Dove was frightened by something or someone ,flew up to the wire ...The egg was ready to be laid ,you can not stop Mother Nature...

Answer 7

Was it a "morning dove" or was it a dove "mourning"? Not sure maybe it was an unfertilized egg or the bird had no nest?

Answer 8

It probably was either previously egg bound or a young hen and it was her first egg. They do that sometimes.

Answer 9

that is so sad.