Mourning doves are dumb as bricks though. We have an open doggy door (had to remove the flap because the chihuahua couldn’t push it open) and every now and again a small bird gets trapped in our patio. It’s almost always a mourning dove.

Robins, cardinals, orange-beaked birds (forget the name), and boat-tailed grackles can get out pretty fast on their own if I just open a door and shoo them around for a bit. Mourning doves will bloody themselves trying to get out through the screen over and over again until I catch them with my hands (which I’ve done at least six times now).

They’re a staple food for the ospreys, eagles, red tailed hawks, and cooper’s hawks though. I find bunches of their bloody feathers in the yard all the time 🤷