Ringed turtle dove Streptopelia risoria

Identification Tips:

• 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.