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See River Dove for the river.
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Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida) | ||||||||||||
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Subfamily Columbinae Columba Nesoenas Streptopelia Macropygia Reinwardtoena Turacoena Turtur Oena Chalcophaps Henicophaps Phaps Ocyphaps Geophaps Petrophassa Geopelia Leucosarcia Zenaida Ectopistes (extinct) Columbina Claravis Metropelia Scardafella Uropelia Leptotila Geotrygon Starnoenas Caloenas Gallicolumba Trugon Microgoura (extinct?) Subfamily Otidiphabinae Otidiphaps Subfamily Gourinae Goura Subfamily Didunculinae Didunculus Subfamily Treroninae Phapitreron Treron Ptilinopus Drepanoptila Alectroenas Ducula Lopholaimus Hemiphaga Cryptophaps Gymnophaps |
The species commonly referred to just as the "pigeon" is the feral Rock Dove.
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
The poorly constructed nests are made of sticks, and the two white eggs are incubated by both sexes.
Doves feed on seeds, fruit and other soft plantstuffs. Unlike most other birds, (but see flamingo), the doves and pigeons produce "crop milk", which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the cropA crop is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion that is found in many animals, including earthworms, leechs, insects, and birds. Cropping is used by bees to temporarly store nectar of flower. Both sexes produce this highly nutritious substance to feed to the young.
This family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the IndomalayaThe Indomalaya Ecozone was previously called the Oriental region. It extends from the Makran region of southern Pakistan through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Java, Bali, and Borneo, and Australasia ecozoneThe Australasian ecozone includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (including Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands (the Indones. It is related to the extinct dodoThis article is about the extinct bird. See also Prince Dodo, Dodo (Biblical name) or Dodo (ISP). The Mauritius Dodo Raphus cucullatus called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of Mauritius.s.
The young doves and pigeons are called 'squabs'. A person who keeps pigeons is called a 'pigeon fancier'.