Diamond Dove

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult: white patches on wings; wing edges black
2. Adult: eyes red, eye-ring orange
3. Adult: bill dark gray; legs and feet pink
4. Adult: belly cream; tail rufous-gray

Male, female and young

Female has paler eye-rings and more rufous plumage; male has a pale gray-blue crown, neck, and breast; juvenile lacks white wing patches and has a pale gray bill.

Voice

Calls are varied, slow, and somewhat mournful; also gives soft falsetto cooing: two long coos, a pause, then three coos, long–short–long; alarm consists of several short, loud coos.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: August–October · Most records: Australia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Diamond Dove has been recorded at 64 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Bowra Wildlife SanctuaryAustralia2,314 records
2. Broome Bird ObservatoryAustralia1,253 records
3. Taylors LagoonAustralia358 records

Countries and regions with the most records

AustraliaUnited Arab EmiratesUnited StatesPortugalIsraelSingaporeSpainGermany

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata) is a resident bird in Australia. The pigeon predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia. They are one of Australia's smallest pigeons along with the peaceful dove.

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