Dusky Turtle Dove vs Mourning Collared 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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Mourning Collared Dove

Streptopelia decipiens

Medium134 gShrubland

The Mourning Collared Dove is a medium-sized, stocky pigeon, up to 32 cm in length. It is often black with pale brown wings, which are broad and pointed. The head is grey and the underside is pink, giving a pale grey shading on the belly. There is a black hind neck patch edged with white. The legs and a patch of bare skin around the eye are red. When flying, it shows dark colored flight feathers and extensive white in the tail, the latter being a distinction from the similar but larger red-eyed dove. Voice: The call from the Mourning Collared Dove is a deep, nasally call note that sounds along the lines of kuk-koooo-kuk. This call pattern is flat and considered a hoot.

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