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 about 308 species worldwide and 5 species which occur in American Samoa.
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia (I)
- Friendly Ground-dove Gallicolumba stairi
- Many-coloured Fruit-dove Ptilinopus perousii
- Purple-capped Fruit-dove Ptilinopus porphyraceus
- Pacific Imperial-pigeon Ducula pacifica
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of American Samoa
Famous quotes containing the words pigeons and and/or pigeons:
“I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)