RE: Pigeons, ordinary pigeons (a lot of)

'at the drop of a dime' - I like this wording, sounds a nice vocabulary!
this summer my family is at our summer place, and one morning my wife witnessed a wild representative of this family, wild forest pigeon; it was size of a duck, but shy and skittish exactly like a Mourning dove you mentioned - it took off in a moment when noticed her at 15m distance... she had no time to take any photo 🙃
!PIZZA