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Rare Mexican doves at Albuquerque Zoo

The Albuquerque zoo will try to breed Socorro doves from Mexico. Captive-bred doves arrived Thursday at the zoo.

Full Story: KOB.com Eyewitness News 4 - New Mexico

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NM Desert Rat

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#1
Nov 20, 2008
 
It realy would have been nice to have a photo with the story.
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Nov 20, 2008
 

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Lou Dobbs and Rich Santorum defend higher fences at the border to exclude these illegal avians.
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Nov 20, 2008
 
Roasted Dove served with a nice Marsala wine sauce is yummy. And don't forget the fire roasted asparagus and something lemony for dessert.
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#5
Nov 21, 2008
 
If you want them to breed then take them to the border and tell them that they get a free ambulance ride to an American hospital before the lay an egg. We will have so many we won’t know what to do with them.

At least the doves serve a purpose, we can eat them.
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Nov 21, 2008
 

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NM Desert Rat wrote:
It realy would have been nice to have a photo with the story.
You need a night camera, they cross under the cover of darkness.
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Nov 21, 2008
 
To those who would make a mockery of them, this is a species that is extinct in the wild. They were wiped out by introduced (by man) feral cats, and the last wild sighting was back in 1972. There are less than 100 of them left today, about 200 if you count crosses to other doves.

There is a picture of one in the captive breeding program at the Bristol Zoo here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/image_ga...
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Nov 21, 2008
 
Silk_the_Absent1 wrote:
To those who would make a mockery of them, this is a species that is extinct in the wild. They were wiped out by introduced (by man) feral cats, and the last wild sighting was back in 1972. There are less than 100 of them left today, about 200 if you count crosses to other doves.
There is a picture of one in the captive breeding program at the Bristol Zoo here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/image_ga...
Thanks for posting a link with a photo.
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