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)
- Scaly-naped Pigeon Patagioenas squamosa
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita
- Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
- Grenada Dove Leptotila wellsi (E)
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Grenada
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—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)