It lives in flocks and walks about on the ground, feeding on seeds, tubers, and some insects.
Adaptation to ground feeding has progressed much further in various tropical genera, though the ecology of the species involved barely has been studied.
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Ground feeding in the forest, for example, is limited to the ground rollers in Madagascar; in mainland Africa this niche is occupied by the hoopoe (except in dense forest) and by birds of other orders.
The mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura) of North America and the turtledove (Streptopelia turtur) and stock dove (C. oenas) of Europe rarely take green vegetation, do not feed in trees, and so are examples of the trend toward complete ground feeding.
Though the worst of the deluge is thought to be over, more flooding was expected on Tuesday as rain that had fallen on high ground fed through rivers and streams on to lower, saturated ground.
The four coraciiform families found in temperate Eurasia occupy only three niches: ground feeding (hoopoe), darting from a perch (kingfishers, some bee-eaters), and aerial hawking (other bee-eaters, rollers).
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They roost in trees and forage on the ground, feeding on seeds, nuts, berries, grass, foliage, invertebrates, lizards, and small snakes.
