Black-billed Wood Dove

Turtur abyssinicus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsShrublandPlatform nestMedium · 63 g

When to see the Black-billed Wood Dove

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

Where to see the Black-billed Wood Dove

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 21 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 Central African Republic.

About the Black-billed Wood Dove

The black-billed wood dove or black-billed dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in a belt across Africa just south of the Sahara Desert.

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