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Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.It is the only family in the order Columbiformes.These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres.
The Columbidae are a large family of birds including the doves and the pigeons, in the order Columbiformes. Subcategories This category has the following 31 subcategories, out of 31 total.
Order: Columbiformes: Family: Columbidae: Subfamily: Columbinae Leach, 1820: Genera; See text (many genera) Columbinae is a subfamily of birds from the family Columbidae.
Picui ground dove Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Columbina Species: C. picui Binomial name Columbina picui (Temminck, 1813) The Picui ground dove or Picui dove (Columbina picui) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in ...
Common wood pigeon perched on a fence. Photograph taken in Cambridge, England. The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus), also known as simply wood pigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family (), native to the western Palearctic.
Columbimorphae is a clade/superorder discovered by genome analysis that includes birds of the orders Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pterocliformes (sandgrouse), and Mesitornithiformes (mesites). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This group was defined in the PhyloCode by George Sangster and colleagues in 2022 as "the least inclusive crown clade containing ...
As with other columbids, this species drinks through suction, which is atypical of birds which usually collect water in their oral cavity and then raise their heads to use gravity in order to drink. C. minuta is monogamous and guard their nesting sites. Their generation length is around 2.6 years. [12]
Geotrygon is a bird genus in the pigeon and dove family ().Its members are called quail-doves, and all live in the Neotropics.The species of this genus have ranges from southern Mexico and Central America to the West Indies and South America, with 2 species recorded as occasional vagrants reported in Texas and Florida in the United States.