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Laughing Dove

Spilopelia senegalensis

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Field Notes

Description:

An elegant slim small pigeon, mainly cinnamon-brown with blue-grey wing covers and rufous scaled breast band.

Habitat:

This a resident breeder in most of sub-Saharan Africa (and Middle-East and India), and found mostly in open country (including urban) - and it avoids forests. Here, observed, iin abundance, in urban environments of Abuja and Minna (capital of Niger State of NIgeria).

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