Mourning doves are light gray and brown and generally muted in color. Males and females are similar in appearance. The species is generally monogamous, with two squabs (young) per brood. Both parents incubate and care for the young.
Description: The Brown Cuckoo-Dove is a large brown pigeon of rainforests, with a very long, tapering tail. There is a pale streak below the blue-grey eye and a red eye-ring. The female has a brighter chestnut cap and a scaly pattern on the breast.
Brown cuckoo doves are originally from the Philippines and are found throughout South-East Asia and into Australia along the eastern coast.
The Brown Cuckoo-Dove is a large, chocolate-brown species of pigeon native to the wetter forests of eastern Australia. Birds are relatively gregarious, with counts of up to 20 recorded in Brisbane.
Pigeons and doves belong to the same family of birds (Columbidae), which consists of more than 300 species of birds. They share similar features like thick and round bodies, short necks and thin peaks, but doves are generally of a smaller stature while pigeons are often larger and stubbier.
The message of love, hope and peace is often conveyed in the appearance of a mourning dove. Depending on your spiritual belief, a visit from a mourning dove can be more than a message from a loved one. It can represent a messenger of love sent from God. The mourning dove might be sent to you during a time of crisis.
The Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove, or Brown Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia amboinensis) is a dove in the genus Macropygia. In Australia, it is sometimes called "Brown Pigeon" or "Pheasant Pigeon", but both are best avoided, as they can lead to confusion with the brown doves and the true Pheasant Pigeon.
The simplified answer is in genetic color dominance. Typically the order of dominance for pigeons is red over blue, blue over brown. So brown or chocolate is recessive and that is why it is an unusual color in flocks.
The brown cuckoo-dove is relatively large for a dove or pigeon. With brown feathers, it's not a very flashy bird, but it boasts a long, attention-grabbing tail that can fan out in a display. What is this? Males can be differentiated from females by their green and red iridescent feathers.
The Peaceful Dove (24 cm) inhabits the open woodlands across most of Australia except in the south-west and Tasmania. They feed from the ground on seeds and insects. The Diamond Dove (24 cm) is named for the white spots on the wings of adult birds. They are found across most of Australia except Tasmania.
Spotted Doves are mostly light brown above, with darker centres to the feathers of the back and wings. The head is grey, and the neck and underparts are grey-brown, tinged with pink.
The diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata) is a resident bird in Australia. The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia.
Common Myna is also known as Indian Myna. It is brown in colour with a black head and a yellow bill.
Stock doves are similar to rock doves/feral pigeons. They are largely blue-grey with an iridescent bottle green band on the back of the neck.
While the word pigeon has its roots in French, dove is of Nordic origin. Although the terms “pigeon” and “dove” have no technical definition, today we tend to categorize the smaller species as doves and the larger ones as pigeons.
Mourning doves and pigeons have round heads, short necks, and short thin beaks. Compared to mourning doves, pigeons are larger and stubbier with shorter, straighter tails. Mourning dove tails are longer and tapered. Birders can identify mourning doves in flight by flashes of white on the tips of their fan-shaped tails.
They're delicate brown to buffy-tan overall, with black spots on the wings and black-bordered white tips to the tail feathers. Mourning Doves fly fast on powerful wingbeats, sometimes making sudden ascents, descents, and dodges, their pointed tails stretching behind them.
Eurasian Collared-Doves are very similar to Mourning Doves, but their tail is square and they usually show a visible collar. Mourning Doves have a long pointy tail and a spot, not a collar on their neck. The Eurasian Collared-Dove is an introduced and invasive species.
This is where I have put the rarest of wild pigeon colors- Indigo. There are only two records of wild pigeons displaying indigo. the other morphs are not known to exist in the wild, but are common in captivity and therefore a few wild individuals may exist.
Color Comes from Melanins
Different types of subunits give each type of melanin its color—black, brown, or red. Most birds make all three types; it's the proportion that gives them their color. Blue pigeons make mostly black melanin, brown pigeons make mostly brown, and ash-red make mostly red.
The pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) is a species of pigeon in the family Columbidae endemic to Mauritius. The pink pigeon nearly became extinct in the 1970s and the 1990s and is still very rare.
Gender. You can't tell a male and female pigeon apart just by their colour. Similar in markings and colours, only a trained eye can easily determine the gender of adult pigeons. The male pigeon tends to have a thicker head and wider neck, looking more robust than a female of the same species.
Types of pigeons may be grouped into three classes: utility, fancy, and flying or homing breeds.
The 7 types of doves include the common ground dove, the mourning dove, pigeons, eurasian collared doves, spotted doves, inca doves, and white-winged doves. All of these doves are members of the Columbidae family.
Seeing two doves together is usually a sign of good luck in the love and relationships department. If you're in a relationship, it could show you that all is well. If you're single and looking, it could symbolize that love is on its way.