White-tipped dove Leptotila verreauxi

Identification Tips:

• Length: 10 inches
• Pale head and underparts
• Darker upperparts
• Long, squared tail with white outer tips
• Sexes similar
• United States range restricted to southern Texas

Similar species:

Mourning Dove thinner with pointed tail.

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