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Photo by Yeshey Dorji
Thimphu, western Bhutan, August 2004

Streptopelia orientalis

[edit] Identification

• Scaley buff-brown on back and wings (the feathers are black fringed with buff, grey, or red
• Black and white neck patches
• Long, grey, white-tipped tail
• Red legs
  

Sexes are similar

[edit] Distribution

Siberia, Iran, India, China, Korea, southeast Asia, and southern Japan.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are six subspecies generally recognised:

• S. o. meena:

• South-western Siberia to Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Nepal

• S. o. orientalis:

• Central Siberia to China, Korea, Japan and Kuril Islands

• S. o. stimpsoni :

• Ryukyu Islands

• S. o. orii:

• Taiwan

• S. o. erythrocephala:

• Peninsula India

• S. o. agricola:

• North-eastern India to Myanmar and south-central China (western Yunnan and Hainan Island)

Previous alternative name Rufous Turtle Dove^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Forests and light woodland, city parks and gardens

[edit] Behaviour

Two white eggs are laid in a twig nest in a tree.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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