page_title: List of birds of Pakistan
section_title: Pigeons and doves
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Pakistan / Pigeons and doves
caption_attribution_description: English: Emerald dove / Green-winged dove - Chalcophaps indica Nederlands: Groenvleugelduif / Smaragdduif - Chalcophaps indica
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Pakistan. The avifauna of Pakistan include a total of 768 species, of which five are national symbols of Pakistan; the chukar pheasant is the national bird; the shaheen falcon is the symbolic icon of the Pakistan Air Force and the Pakistan Avicultural Foundation and the national bird of prey; the Asiatic peafowl is the national heritage bird; the cotton teal is the national aquatic bird of Pakistan; and the rose-ringed parakeet is the national pet.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature generally follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Accidental species are included in the total species count for Pakistan.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. The commonly occurring native species do not fall into any of these categories.
  Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Pakistan
  Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Pakistan but exists in other places
  National symbols of Pakistan include:
context_section_description: Order: Columbiformes   Family: Columbidae
  Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
  Rock pigeon, Columba livia
  Hill pigeon, Columba rupestris
  Snow pigeon, Columba leuconota
  Stock dove, Columba oenas (A)
  Yellow-eyed pigeon, Columba eversmanni
  Common wood-pigeon, Columba palumbus
  Speckled wood-pigeon, Columba hodgsonii
  European turtle-dove, Streptopelia turtur (A)
  Oriental turtle-dove, Streptopelia orientalis
  Eurasian collared-dove, Streptopelia decaocto
  Red collared-dove, Streptopelia tranquebarica
  Spotted dove, Spilopelia chinensis
  Laughing dove, Spilopelia senegalensis
  Namaqua dove, Oena capensis (A)
  Asian emerald dove, Chalcophaps indica
  Orange-breasted green-pigeon, Treron bicinctus (A)
  Yellow-footed green-pigeon, Treron phoenicoptera
  Wedge-tailed green-pigeon, Treron sphenurus (A)
caption: Common emerald dove
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