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Photos showing some colors and silky feather conditions of the ringneck dove, Streptopelia risoria.

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Frosty dove with crescent shaped
white head spot.  Note the grizzled mid wing area.  Frosty varies from minimal
wing grizzling [barely detectable] and no white head patches to extreme grizzled
mid-wing area and much white head patches.  The tail corners usually are more whitened with frosty.  And the bill tip usually has a thin vertical stripe or white tip.  

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Dark frosty with white head crescent.

   

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408Y peach pied silky, female

27 years old 13 Feb 2000

Albino, female

702J Orange white back silky, female
"Click here to see wing fanning"

705C Rosy male setting on nest. Click for nest construction demonstration.

Pied, in holding cage drinking

722P Frosty at 5 weeks age

More Dove Pictures I, More Dove Pictures II, More Dove Pictures III, More Dove Pictures IV, Ice Dove Colors, Hatchling variants, Hybrids, Mutant Colors in other species, Oddities: Silky Doves, Flare, Bulge eyes, Bald Squabs, Dwarf Turtle Dove, Sex Ratios, Genetic Characters.