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 6 species which occur in Germany.
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia (I)
- Stock Pigeon Columba oenas
- Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus
- Eurasian Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur
- Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis (A)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
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“I know that Quiet
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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)