Dusky Turtle Dove vs Lemon Dove

Dusky Turtle Dove

Streptopelia lugens

Medium155 gForest

The dusky turtle dove is a very dark or slaty gray dove, generally 28–30 centimeters long and 120–205 grams. It has a gray face slightly paler than the body, conspicuous black patches on sides of the neck, and wing coverts and tertials with pale brown or rufous edges. Its eye is orange or orange-yellow with a purplish eye-ring. Its bill is purplish slate-gray. Its legs are red. Juvenile birds are paler and browner than adults.

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Photo: stinkenroboter · CC BY 4.0

Lemon Dove

Aplopelia larvata

Medium155 gForest

The lemon dove is fairly small, measuring 24–30 cm (9.4–11.8 in) in length and weighing 81.7–150 g (2.88–5.29 oz). Adults have a plumage that is dark brown above, weakly glossed iridescent greenish to bronze (depending on light angle) on the sides of the neck, and cinnamon brown below, and with a pale whitish face grading into the brown body plumage. The feet, iris and orbital skin are red, the bill is black. Males and females are very similar, though females slightly duller.

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Photo: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0

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