Ringed turtle dove Streptopelia risoria

Identification Tips:

• Length: 10 inches
• Pale creamy-buff head and underparts
• Thin black collar
• Grayish upperparts
• Long, squared tail-underside has black base and white tip, uppersurface is gray with white outer tips
• Sexes similar
• Escaped cage bird with small populations in several cities

Similar species:

Eurasian Collared-Dove similar but has different song, darker primaries, grayer plumage, larger size, longer tail and more conspicuous white on the neck. Mourning Dove darker with pointed tail and lacks collar.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.