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.
- Rock Dove Columba livia (I)
- White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala
- Scaly-naped Pigeon Patagioenas squamosa(B)
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata (B)
- Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita(B)
- Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina(B)
- African Collared Dove "Streptopelia roseogrisea"(B) Eurasian Collared Dove may be present
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Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)