Nilgiri Wood Pigeon vs Snow Pigeon

Nilgiri Wood Pigeon

Columba elphinstonii

Large379 gForest

This pigeon appears dark grey and a black and white patterned patch made of white tipped stiff feathers on the back of the neck is distinctive. The mantle is chestnut. The male has a paler grey crown while the female has a darker grey crown with a pale throat. The most confusable other species is the mountain imperial pigeon but that species has paler underwing coverts. The feet and the base of the bill are red.

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Recorded by Dipu Karuthedathu · Call · Kodaikanal, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India · CC BY-SA 3.0

Photo: Paulmathi Vinod · CC BY 4.0

Snow Pigeon

Columba leuconota

Medium284 gRocky

Snow pigeons have a blackish head contrasting with a white neck collar and white underparts shading into ashy on the abdomen. Their backs are brownish-grey with a white patch on the lower back. Their wings are pale grey with three brown bands. Their black tails have a clear white band in the middle which narrows and curve forward to reach the tip of the outermost tail features. Young birds have narrow, pale buff margins to the feathers of the upper parts and wings. The white of the underparts is sullied with buff.

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Photo: Kingshuk Mondal · CC BY 4.0

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