Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Greenland, United Kingdom.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 130,000,000 (2010).
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) [XC495471]
by Mario Reyes Jr from Willow Tank, San Simon Valley, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (wingbeats)
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) [XC268211]
by from San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (song)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni) and Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata), and until recently considered conspecific with Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni).
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
marginella (Woodhouse, 1852) - British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba south to Baja California, Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and on to south-central Mexico.
carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Wisconsin, Michigan and southern Ontario to central New York, southern Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and south to Gulf coast of Florida, Bahama Is and Bermuda.
macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) - Cuba, I of Pines, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.
clarionensis (Townsend, CH, 1890) - Clarion I in Revillagigedo Archipelago (off western Mexico).
turturilla (Wetmore, 1956) - Costa Rica and western Panama.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet