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)
- Band-tailed Pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata (A)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove, Streptopelia decaocto (A)
- White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica (A)
- Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura
- Inca Dove, Columbina inca (A)
- Common Ground-Dove, Columbina passerina (A)
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“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)