Hi,
I appreciate your love for these birds, but introducing any species to a habitat where it is not native is usually disastrous to the native flora and fauna. Nature has a balance, and when humans think they know better, they cause all types of damage. Entire species have become extinct because of humans either deliberately or accidentally introducing non-native species. One of the worst current situations is in Florida, where escaped exotic pets are wreaking havoc in the Florida wetlands. Non-native snakes and lizards are freely breeding and displacing native species. In other places, pet fish that have been turned loose into lakes and rivers have done the same thing. Rodents from ships have made their way onto islands and done irreversible damage to wildlife that previously had no predators. In fact the collared or ring-necked doves have been established in the US due to illegal releases and escaped pets and are seen as an invasive species because they are larger than the mourning doves and do not co-exist, so the force the mourning doves out of any area where they can thrive. They are lovely, but please never release a foreign species into the wild.
Thank you for asking Lafeber,
Brenda
