Tambourine Dove
A variety of the Tambourine Dove
Dove · Cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Tambourine Dove
The wild-type Tambourine Dove shows its natural African forest plumage: a clean white face and underparts contrasting with a grey crown and pale grey-brown back, wings and tail. Folded wings carry distinctive large dark-purple patches, and chestnut primaries flash in low, agile flight; the eye-ring, bill and feet are purple-red. Females are duller, white only on the belly with grey-brown face and breast. A shy, ground-feeding woodland dove named for its soft, persistently repeated drumming call, kept by aviculturists for its quiet beauty.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 20
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 14 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Tender
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- Africa
- Scientific name
- Turtur tympanistria