As A Symbol and In The Arts
The Eastern Mourning Dove (Z. m. carolinensis) is Wisconsin's official symbol of peace. The bird is also Michigan's state bird of peace.
The Mourning Dove appears as the Carolina Turtle-Dove on plate 286 of Audubon's Birds of America.
References to Mourning Doves appear frequently in Native American literature. Mourning Dove imagery also turns up in contemporary American and Canadian poetry in the work of poets as diverse as Robert Bly, Jared Carter, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Wright.
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