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  <dc:creator>Brian Sharp</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1971</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;A Mourning Dove (&lt;i&gt;Zenaida macroura&lt;/i&gt;) banded in New York has been reported shot in California. On 25 August 1969, near Palmyra (43&lt;span&gt;°&lt;/span&gt;00' N, 77&lt;span&gt;°&lt;/span&gt;10' W), New York Department of Environmental Conservation personnel placed U. S. Fish &amp;amp; Wildlife Service band 883-97279 on the leg of a hatching-year Mourning Dove of unknown sex. During the first weekend of the dove season in September 1970, Stan Solus (P.O. Box 594, Seiad Valley, California) recovered the band from a dove he shot in the Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, California (41&lt;span&gt;°&lt;/span&gt;30' N, 122&lt;span&gt;°&lt;/span&gt;20' W). As Mr. Solus included the band with his reporting letter and, in response to my asking him for verification, reaffirmed his original information, the recovery has been accepted as authentic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; I suggest this vagrancy may be explained by assuming that the inexperienced New York bird got emotionally involved with a western bird with which it shared winter quarters, perhaps in Mexico, and thus the following year ended up a flower child in California.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.2307/4083853</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Ornithological Society</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Transcontinental mourning dove recovery</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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