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  2. Mourning dove - Wikipedia

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    Mourning dove on a seawall Mourning dove in California Mourning dove in Guelph, Ontario, Canada The mourning dove is a medium-sized, slender dove approximately 31 cm (12 in) in length. Mourning doves weigh 112–170 g (4.0–6.0 oz), usually closer to 128 g (4.5 oz). [ 26 ]

  3. Doves as symbols - Wikipedia

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    J. E. Millais: The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851). According to the biblical story (Genesis 8:11), a dove was released by Noah after the Flood in order to find land; it came back carrying a freshly plucked olive leaf (Hebrew: עלה זית alay zayit), [8] a sign of life after the Flood and of God's bringing Noah, his family and the animals to land.

  4. Mourning collared dove - Wikipedia

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    The head is grey and the underparts are pink, shading to pale grey on the belly. There is a black hind neck patch edged with white. The legs and a patch of bare skin around the eye are red. When flying, it shows blackish flight feathers and extensive white in the tail, the latter being a distinction from the similar but larger red-eyed dove.

  5. Ring-necked dove - Wikipedia

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    Their body feathers are darkest on the upper side, where they are coloured in dull tones of grey and brown, with shades of lavender on the nape. [6] It is paler below, where a tint of pinkish lavender is usually present. The lower belly and crissum (the undertail coverts surrounding the cloaca) is white. [4]

  6. Grey-fronted dove - Wikipedia

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    Grey-fronted dove Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Leptotila Species: L. rufaxilla Binomial name Leptotila rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard, 1792) The grey-fronted dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) is a large New World tropical dove. It is found on Trinidad ...

  7. Eurasian collared dove - Wikipedia

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    It is grey-buff to pinkish-grey overall, a little darker above than below, with a blue-grey underwing patch. The tail feathers are grey-buff above, and dark grey and tipped white below; the outer tail feathers are also tipped whitish above. It has a black half-collar edged with white on its nape from which it gets its name.

  8. Human uses of birds - Wikipedia

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    Feathers in fashion were a status symbol well into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Belle Epoque draped its clothing in feathers as ornaments. [ 34 ] The Hudson's Bay Company of Canada traded in swans and sometimes geese , for their skins and quills in the 18th and 19th centuries; the skins were then sent to Europe. [ 35 ]

  9. Grey-green fruit dove - Wikipedia

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    The grey-green fruit dove is now placed with nearly 60 other fruit doves in the genus Ptilinopus that was introduced in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson. [4] [5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ptilon meaning "feather" with pous meaning "foot". The specific epithet purpuratus is from Latin and means "clad in purple".