Her head and back were a brownish gray, the iridescent patches of the throat and back of the neck were less bright, and the breast was a pale cinnamon-rose color. The mourning dove, Zenaidura macroura ...

“She’s a young pigeon, and pigeons can have a long life span of about 15 years,” Ciardi said. The birds — easy to spot with their green neck feathers — are common in cities around the ...

A medium-size compact pigeon with long wings and a short tail. Birds most closely resembling their wild ancestors are gray with head and neck darker than back, and a prominent white rump.

The large, heavily built gray pigeon frequents the forests and woodlands ... narrow white half-collar across the upper hind neck, with iridescent greenish below. Iris pale yellow; narrow orbital ...