Birds with dense massive body, short legs and neck, long wings and sharp, tailored to the rapid flight. Operenie thick, dense, with well-developed feathers down part. A short beak, nostrils covered top leatherback kryshechkami. Food is almost exclusively vegetable seeds and, above all, less fruits and berries. All Columbiformes have well-developed goiter, an employee for the accumulation of food, and for its softening, in addition to pigeons fledge «milk», produced in zobu (Shtegman, Ivanov, 1978).

Family Golubinye Columbidae

Characteristics of the family largely coincides with characteristic detachment. The wings of the pigeons long, very sharp, but not too narrow. Flight fast and yet very maneuverable. If necessary, pigeons can take off almost vertically, rising along the cliff walls or buildings. Jacks on trees, rocks or earth-moving rupture, sometimes in burrows or hollows. On the rocks and cliff often nest groups. In laying usually two white eggs, chicks vyluplyayutsya totally helpless, covered only a few volosovidnym down. Parents feed them the first time «milk», but later softened seeds, otrygivaya from goitre. In vnegnezdovoe being kept flocks (Shtegman, Ivanov, 1978).

Besides mentioned in the list of species of fauna of Russia are:

Japanese ringdove Columba janthina Temminck, 1830
Ringed turtledove Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838)
Korotkohvostaya turtledove Streptopelia tranquebarica (Hermann, 1804)
Low turtledove Streptopelia senegalensis (L., 1766)
Green dove Sphenurus sieboldii (Temminck, 1835)

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