Barbary dove

English

White Barbary Dove

Noun

Barbary dove (plural Barbary doves)

A domesticated dove with unclear taxonomic classification, often treated as its own species as Streptopelia risoria, sometimes as a subspecies of either Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto or African collared dove Streptopelia roseogrisea, and sometimes not as separate species at all, freely breeding with the above species.

Synonyms

cushat, ring dove, ringneck dove

Translations

Streptopelia risoria — see ringneck dove

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