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Pigeons and doves have a stout body, a small head and a typical cooing call. The parents feed their chicks with a milk made in their crop. They live almost everywhere except at the poles. Many feed on seeds or fruit. Their flight is fast and powerful.
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Columbidae
Chalcophaps indica · Least concern
In 1743 the English naturalist George Edwards published one of the first descriptions of the common emerald dove, drawing a live bird kept at a merchant's home in Rotherhithe, near London. Today it is the state bird of Tamil Nadu in India. It lays two cream-coloured eggs in a flimsy stick nest.
Photo: Tisha Mukherjee (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Columbidae
Columba palumbus · Least concern
Europe's big garden pigeon eats so much grain that farmers treat it as a pest. It is hunted across its range, with little effect on its numbers; from 1953 to 1969 the British government even subsidised the hunters' cartridges.
Photo: Don Loarie (CC BY 4.0)
Columbidae
Streptopelia decaocto · Least concern
A Greek legend explains the Eurasian collared dove's name, decaocto, 'eighteen': a maid paid only 18 silver coins a year begged the gods to reveal her meagre wage, and Zeus turned her into the dove, which has cried 'decaocto' ever since. Over the last century it has spread far beyond its native range.
Photo: xulescu_g (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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