Tambourine Dove

When to see the Tambourine Dove

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

Where to see the Tambourine Dove

The map shades 32 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Tambourine Dove

The tambourine dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in woodlands and other thick vegetation in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its range extends from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa, but it is absent from the drier areas of south-western Africa. There is a population on the Comoros Islands.

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Easily confused with

Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur aferThe blue-spotted wood dove or blue-spotted dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicusThe 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. Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeriThe blue-headed wood dove, also known as the blue-headed dove, is a medium-sized, rufous brown wood-dove with bluish-grey head, iridescent green patches on wings, reddish bill, dark brown iris, and dark red feet.