White-tipped Dove

White-tipped doves are the only U.S. member of Leptotila, the most widespread dove genus in the Americas — despite that, they barely cross the border, with their range topping out in southernmost Texas before running south through Mexico and Central America all the way to Peru and Argentina. It is a large, round, short-tailed tropical dove, plump and pale with pink legs and the white-tipped outer tail feathers the name refers to, and unlike most doves it forages alone or in pairs rather than in flocks, working the ground for seeds and berries. More often than not you will hear the low, hollow cooing call before you ever spot the bird itself. It does not migrate — wherever it lives, it stays.