Birds of India - Pigeons and Doves

Pigeons and Doves

Order: Columbiformes. Family: Columbidae

Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere. There are 308 species worldwide and 28 species which occur in India.

• Rock Pigeon Columba livia
• Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris
• Snow Pigeon Columba leuconota
• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni
• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
• Speckled Wood Pigeon Columba hodgsonii
• Ashy Wood Pigeon Columba pulchricollis
• Nilgiri Wood Pigeon Columba elphinstonii (E)
• Pale-capped Pigeon Columba punicea
• Andaman Wood Pigeon Columba palumboides
• Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
• Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
• Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
• Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall

• Andaman Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia rufipennis
• Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
• Nicobar Pigeon Caloenas nicobarica
• Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Treron bicinctus
• Grey-fronted Green Pigeon Treron affinis (in some classifications it is split from Treron pompadora which is resident in Sri Lanka)
• Ashy-headed Green Pigeon Treron phayrei (raised to species by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
• Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra
• Yellow-footed Green Pigeon Treron phoenicopterus
• Pin-tailed Green Pigeon Treron apicauda
• Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus
• Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea
• Nicobar Imperial Pigeon Ducula nicobarica (raised to species by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
• Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia
• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor