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 13 species which occur in Sierra Leone.
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Lemon Dove Columba larvata
- Eurasian Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- African Green Pigeon Treron calva
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Sierra Leone
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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)