What Does Dove Bird Eat

Doves enjoy a range of foods, including pellets, seeds, vegetables, fruit and the occasional treat.

• Doves should be offered 15-25% pelleted-based diet and 50-60% bird seed.
• Feed your dove dark, leafy greens and vegetables every other day.
• Once a week, feed your dove fruit such as berries, melon and kiwi.

Can doves eat bananas?

If you have a pet bird, you can also offer them bananas as part of their diet. Just be sure to cut the fruit into small pieces so they can easily eat it.

What fruit does doves eat?

What Do Doves Eat?

• Seeds, including seeds of dove weed, sunflower, hemp, safflower and crowngrasses.
• Grains like wheat, rice, corn, barley, oats, and sorghum.
• Grasses, including Panicum and Echinochloa.
• Weeds, including knotweed, ragweed and poison ivy.
• Berries.
• Fruits, including dates, figs and plums.
• Flowers and buds.

What human food can you feed doves?

Fruits and Vegetables Finely chopped vegetables and greens, plus smaller amounts of fruit, should be offered as part of a pigeon's or dove's daily diet. Pale vegetables, with a high water composition (i.e., iceberg or head lettuce, celery) offer very little nutritional value and should not be offered.