page_title: Streptopelia
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Streptopelia / Species
caption_attribution_description: Nesoenas picturata, Masoala Halle Zoo Zürich (Switzerland)
context_page_description: Streptopelia is a genus of birds in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. These are mainly slim, small to medium-sized species. The upperparts tend to be pale brown and the underparts are often a shade of pink. Many have a characteristic black-and-white patch on the neck and monotonous cooing songs.
  The heartland of this genus is Africa, but several species occur in tropical South Asia. As a group, this genus is highly successful; many species are abundant in a range of habitats in the tropics and two now have a much more extensive distribution. The Eurasian collared dove naturally expanded out of its original range of the warmer temperate regions from southeastern Europe to Japan to colonise the rest of Europe, reaching as far west as Great Britain by 1960 and Ireland soon after. It has also been introduced into the U.S. and, as of 1999, it had been reported from 22 states and was still spreading rapidly.
context_section_description: The genus contains 13 species:
  European turtle dove Streptopelia turtur
  Dusky turtle dove, Streptopelia lugens
  Adamawa turtle dove, Streptopelia hypopyrrha
  Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis
  Sunda collared dove, Streptopelia bitorquata
  Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto
  African collared dove, Streptopelia roseogrisea
  White-winged collared dove, Streptopelia reichenowi
  Mourning collared dove, Streptopelia decipiens
  Red-eyed dove, Streptopelia semitorquata
  Ring-necked dove, Streptopelia capicola
  Vinaceous dove, Streptopelia vinacea
  Red collared dove, Streptopelia tranquebarica
  The genera Spilopelia and Nesoenas were formerly placed in Streptopelia, but have since been separated out to make the genus monophyletic.
caption: The Nesoenas group (here: Malagasy turtle dove, N. picturatus/S. picturata) has a reddish hue and no conspicuous neck pattern; they are found in the Madagascar region
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