Band-tailed Pigeon

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When to see the Band-tailed Pigeon

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Band-tailed Pigeon

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.

About the Band-tailed Pigeon

The band-tailed pigeon is a pigeon native to the Americas, and one of the largest pigeons in this region. It is largely gray, but with a thin white collar on the nape and a purple-gray breast.

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Easily confused with

Picazuro PigeonPatagioenas picazuroIt is a large pigeon with a wingspan of up to 22 inches and can weigh as much as a pound. Pale-vented PigeonPatagioenas cayennensisThe pale-vented pigeon is 30–32 cm long and weighs normally 230–250 g. Red-billed PigeonPatagioenas flavirostrisRed-billed pigeons have largely dark, slate-gray plumage with a more maroon, though sometimes described as purple, head, neck, and wing coverts.

Side by side: Band-tailed Pigeon vs Crested Pigeon · Band-tailed Pigeon vs Picazuro Pigeon · Band-tailed Pigeon vs Pale-vented Pigeon · Band-tailed Pigeon vs Red-billed Pigeon