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The South African All Habitat And Ground-Dwelling Birds With Short Legs

South Africa's Doves, Pigeons and Sandgrouse

The ground-dwelling birds with short legs that occur in all habitats of South Africa include Doves (Columbidae), Pigeons (Columbidae) and Sandgrouse (Pteroclidae). These Doves, Pigeons and Sandgrouse are some of the more common birds with in their range we have in South Africa and the bird which I regard as the most common bird in South Africa also falls into this category... The Laughing Dove.

  1. Double-Banded Sandgrouse

  2. Yellow-Throated Sandgrouse

  3. Namaqua Sandgrouse

  4. Burchell's Sandgrouse

  5. Speckled (Rock) Pigeon

  6. African Olive-Pigeon (Rameron Pigeon)

  7. Eastern Bronze-Naped (Delegorgue's) Pigeon

  8. Lemon (Cinnamon) Dove

  9. Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)

  10. African Mourning Dove

  11. Red-Eyed Dove

  12. Cape Turtle Dove

  13. Laughing Dove

  14. European Turtle Dove

  15. African Green Pigeon

  16. Emerald-Spotted (Greenspotted) Wood-Dove

  17. Blue-Spotted Wood-Dove

  18. Tambourine Dove

  19. Namaqua Dove

  


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