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The peaceful dove has a pink-grey breast with chequered grey-brown wings. Thin striations of black appear around the neck and nape area and descend down the back. The eye is greyish-white and a blue-grey ring surrounds the eye that tapers off and joins the beak/cere. The juveniles are paler and less striated. They also have a duller eye ring.
Blue ground doves are small pigeons, 20 cm long with a weight of 65–72 g. Adult males have blue-grey upperparts and paler grey underparts, becoming grey-white on the face. The flight feathers and outer tail feathers are blackish, and the wings are boldly spotted black (these spots often forming distinct bands).
Male emerald dove Emerald dove in Sime Forest, Singapore. The common emerald dove is a stocky, medium-sized pigeon, typically 23–27 cm (9.1–10.6 in) in length. [7] The back and wings are bright emerald green. The flight feathers and tail are blackish, and broad black and white bars show on the lower back in flight. The head and underparts ...
The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace. The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also became an iconographic image of the period, known as "The dove of peace". An example is housed in the collection of the Tate Gallery and MOMA. Since ...
The Eurasian collared dove is a medium-sized dove, distinctly smaller than the wood pigeon, similar in length to a rock dove but slimmer and longer-tailed, and slightly larger than the related European turtle dove, with an average length of 32 cm (13 in) [17] from tip of beak to tip of tail, with a wingspan of 47–55 cm (19–22 in), and a ...
Child with a Dove; Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (El Greco, Minneapolis) Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (El Greco, Washington) Christ in the House of His Parents; Coronation of the Virgin (El Greco, Illescas) Coronation of the Virgin (Gentile da Fabriano) Coronation of the Virgin (Velázquez)
Child with a Dove (French: L'enfant au pigeon), also described as Child Holding a Dove, Child with a Pigeon is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1901 at the start of his Blue Period. The painting is a depiction of a young girl in a white dress holding a white dove, and represents an important ...
The name is from Latin columbinus meaning "of a dove" or "dove-like". [3] The type species was designated as the C. strepitans by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1841. [4] This taxon is now considered as a subspecies of the picui ground dove Columbina picui strepitans. [5] [6] The genus contains nine species: [6] Inca dove, Columbina inca