Introduction

You polished your rifles, cleaned their gunpowder, pulled on your best boots, and adjusted your scopes. Now you are ready for dove hunting. Or are you?

If you cannot provide suitable camouflage and clothing, all this preparation will go to waste, and you will come home empty-handed because, with clothes that will show that you are a hunter in the open, the doves will realize that you are unsuitable for their habitat and pose a danger to them, and they will immediately get away from there.

Here, the simplest and most effective step you need to do and implement to avoid such a situation and to secure your prey will be wearing.

At the beginning of this, let’s talk about some characteristic features of these bird species to provide you with certain basic information about your prey, to get to know this animal, which will be a kind of “rival,” and to allow you to hunt by adapting to its features.

Why Is Wearing Important While Hunting?

Not just for the dove, but when we bring up the subject of wearing for all animals during the hunting process, we can talk about how important the camouflage type of clothing is in this process.

Namely, animals especially prey species, as the living species with the strongest instincts in nature, are very careful and timid in their habitats, and they can lock their sights to the furthest distance depending on their characteristics.

In this direction, the hunter should adapt to the prey; the prey should not adapt to the hunter. So that the hunting process is not disturbed and the animal does not get scared and run away. In other words, the hunter should pay attention to the prey’s habitat features, including wearing.

The choice of camouflage and inconspicuous clothing is a very important action in many animal hunting, including dove hunting.

Background Knowledge about Doves

Having general and background information about the bird before the hunting period will be very advantageous for the hunter as well as for taking the right steps.

Appearance: All doves are bird species with a smaller head than their body and a small beak. With their short legs, doves that walk with their heads forwards and backward vary in colors but usually have white and tones of color. It has an average flight speed of 55 miles per hour.

Habitat & Diet: Water, the source of life for all living things, is very important for doves. While drinking water, they drink by lifting their heads like many bird species. These birds, which are herbivores with a rate of 99%, feed on grass and grain seeds. An interesting feature is that they need to consume an average of 2,500 seeds to get enough daily energy. In addition, they can also be fed with fruit residues.

Moreover, they can live mostly in open forest areas, rural areas, the countryside, and dense forest areas, depending on their personality as a social bird species.

Migration: Depending on the conditions, most dove species migrate south during the winter.

Nesting: Being very loyal to their mates, doves work together to build their nests, often with grass stems, moss, pine needles, and some soil they collect in the spring. The size of the slots averages three inches. Depending on the dove’s conditions during the spawning period, the mother dove usually lays multiple eggs and incubates alternately with her mate. The incubation period usually lasts two and a half weeks.

How Do the Doves See the Colors?

In line with the research and the reports of ornithologists, it has been understood that the human spectral range is quite different from that of birds and tetrachromats that can see four colors: UV, blue, green, and red. In other words, we can think that birds can see much more colorful and vivid forms of colors.

In this context, while it is necessary to avoid vivid colors during the hunt, dressing in a certain pattern will prevent the doves from distinguishing you during the hunt in their habitats and will make the process even more professional and easy.

How to Choose the Right Wearing for the Hunt

You cannot go hunting with a random T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, and you need to provide the right camouflage through dove hunting.

Depending on the area where you will hunt, as a hunter, choosing colors that are compatible with natural life and camouflage with features that will prevent you from being seen, as mentioned above, will be a very important and effective step when hunting doves that perceive colors very differently from humans.

Do not forget that, like many game animals, doves have a point of view that can easily distinguish you, which differs from their food and shelter.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, based on the dove features mentioned at the beginning of the article, it has been understood how important the subject of clothing is during dove hunting, based on the way it perceives colors and the angle of view, along with the basic information you get about your prey.

In light of this information, it will be one of the most solid steps to wear colorless and unobtrusive clothes while hunting, as well as camouflage that will adapt to the habitat of doves as bird species with sharp vision.