doves are always white and pigeons are always black mostly just a color difference
A dove is a pigeon is a dove
I was told the difference is that the dove has a ring around it's neck and the pigeon dosen't.
There are llots heres some: Barbary Dove, Diamond Dove, Green Wing Dove, Mourning Dove, White Dove, Ringneck Dove, Senegal Dove, Spotted Dove, Bleeding-heart Pigeon, Brunner Pouter Pigeon, Budapest Tumbler Pigeon, Chinese Owl Pigeon, Crested Pigeon, English Trumpeter Pigeon, Indian Fantail Pigeon, Maltese Pigeon, Old German Owl Pigeon, Oriental Frill Pigeon, Purple-breasted Fruit Pigeon, Rock Pigeon - Common Pigeon, Valencian Figurita Pigeon, and the West of England Tumbler Pigeon. Among the most popular types are white doves and turtle doves.
Rock dove, Pink pigeon, Eurasian collared dove, Wood-pigeon, Mourning dove, Magnificent fruit pigeon, New Zealand pigeon, Victoria crowned pigeon, Crowned sandgrouse and Namaqua sandgrouse.
Crowned pigeon, rock dove(or domestic pigeon), mourning dove, collared dove, white winged dove, ground dove, Inca dove.
Pigeons and doves are the same family but some of them are more commonly known as doves or pigeons. The collared dove, the white dove and the turtle dove are commonly known as doves whereas the other family members like the feral pigeon, wood pigeon and racing pigeon as known as pigeons. To further confuse, the feral pigeon is descended from the rock dove aka rock pigeon. The wood pigeon is also known as the ringed dove and is largest member of the family. So, a wood pigeon is one type of dove or pigeon whereas the term dove is a general term for the family.
the answer is columba-dove,pigeon
Many pigeons live in New York. There's really not much difference between a dove and a pigeon.
pigeon
A dove is any bird in the genus Columba. Generally speaking, any pigeon or dove is a dove in broad terms. The white "dove" in Christian teachings is in fact a Fantail Pigeon, whereas the common "pigeon" is actually a Rock Dove.
Rock dove, mourning dove, white winged dove, Zenaida dove, ground dove, Inca dove, White crowned pigeon, ringed turtle dove, Eurasian collared dove are some examples. There are 289 species in this family worldwide.
A young pigeon or dove is called a squab.
The feminine noun "columba" can mean dove or pigeon.