The Band-tailed Pigeon (BTPI) is about 14 in. long. When you first see the BTPIs, they tend to resemble some of the darker rock doves, or city pigeons. Distant flocks distinguished from rock doves by uniform appearance.
The mournful oowoo wooo woo woo (Alderfer) is the source of the Mourning Dove’s name. But its genus Zenaida, which it shares with the White-winged Dove Z. asiatica and Zenaida Dove Z. aurita, is named for a princess.
In the middle 1970s a local breeder in the Bahamas was burglarized and several Eurasian Collared-Doves were released. Soon thereafter he released the remaining 50 birds he had
