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barbary_dove

barbary dove

English

White Barbary Dove

Noun

barbary dove (plural barbary doves)

  1. 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.

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