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 the Seychelles.
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia (I)
- Eurasian Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur (A)
- Madagascar Turtle-Dove Streptopelia picturata
- Zebra Dove Geopelia striata (I)
- Comoro Blue-Pigeon Alectroenas sganzini
- Seychelles Blue-Pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrima (E)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of The Seychelles
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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)