Palm Dove

Senegal Dove/Laughing Dove

Egyptian Turtle Dove/ (Indian Little Brown Dove)

Photos have been downgraded in size and quality for the Internet.

The palm dove (Streptopelia senegalensis), also known as the Senegal dove, laughing dove and Egyptian turtle dove, is as its names suggest a native of north and west Africa. The ones photographed here were all on north Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 2005 and 2007, although no list of bird species for Tenerife that I can find lists the breed as present. It is a large dove, larger than a turtle dove (see below).

A smaller lookalike dove present in Asia known as the Indian Little Brown Dove is a separate species.
 

The male bird has a wider blue-grey wing border than the female.

 
   

                Comparison with turtle dove (Tenerife)

Bolle's Laurel Pigeon

Endemic to a limited area of laurel and pine forest in Tenerife, Canary Islands, are two "laurel pigeons": Bolle's (Columba bollii) or the dark-tailed laurel pigeon, of which three are in the photo above (taken at considerable distance, hence poor quality) and the white-tailed laurel pigeon (Columba junoniae). 

 

Bolle's has a dark band followed by a light band on the tail finished by a dark band, whereas the white-tailed has no dark bands. Both are elusive, but the white-tailed is particularly rare.

Unidentified Water Pigeon

This pigeon-like bird, also on Tenerife, flew onto a lake with wings open. We did not expect it to be able to fly again, but it drank water and flew away with no trouble. It swooped onto the water and flew off a couple of times more. Its underwings and fat tail do not look like those of a pigeon but its head and upper body do.