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) LC
- Scaly-naped Pigeon, Patagioenas squamosa (A) LC
- White-crowned Pigeon, Patagioenas leucocephala NT
- Red-billed Pigeon, Patagioenas flavirostris LC
- Band-tailed Pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata LC
- Oriental Turtle Dove, Streptopelia orientalis (C) LC
- European Turtle Dove, Streptopelia turtur (A) LC
- Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto (I) LC
- Spotted Dove, Streptopelia chinensis (I) LC
- White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica LC
- Zenaida Dove, Zenaida aurita (A) LC
- Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura LC
- Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius (E) EX
- Inca Dove, Columbina inca LC
- Common Ground Dove, Columbina passerina LC
- Ruddy Ground Dove, Columbina talpacoti LC
- White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi LC
- Key West Quail-Dove, Geotrygon chrysia (C) LC
- Ruddy Quail-Dove, Geotrygon montana (A) LC
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Canada And The United States
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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)
“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)
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