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barbary_dove
barbary dove
English
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
Translations
Streptopelia risoria — see ringneck dove