Crested Pigeon vs Inca Dove: How to Tell Them Apart

Crested Pigeon

Ocyphaps lophotes

Medium204 gGrassland

The length of the crested pigeon varies from 30 to 34 cm (12 to 13 in). Colouration is grey with tinges of brown, pink and green. It has a feathered, but slender, black spike on top of the head. It runs with the crest erect. The periorbital skin is bright orange. Wings have black stripes and are bronzed, while the primary feathers have iridescent areas of brown, purple, blue, and green. Immature birds have duller colours with no bronzing on the wings. The birds can be normally seen in two sizes, they can be thin or plumped.

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Recorded by Peter Russell · Call · Cooya Pooya, Shire of Roebourne, Western Australia, Australia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Martin Rady · CC BY 4.0

Inca Dove

Columbina inca

Small48 gUrban

Voice: The song, a forceful cooing rendered variously as cowl-coo, POO-pup, or NO-hope, may be given from a tree, wire, or other open, high perch such as a television aerial.

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Photo: lwolfartist · CC BY 2.0

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