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ring dove

  • a variation of ringdove.
    ringdove
    noun
    a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.

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Must the male ring dove bow when he coos while courting?

From Time Magazine Archive

With Lehrman's encouragement, Josh studied the ring dove, a small, brownish bird found only under domestication.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I heard the ring dove call   To his mate in the blossoming trees, And I saw the white waves heave and fall.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

I remember the cuckoo's reply To the ring dove that moaned where the reaches Of the Windrush are blue with the sky.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

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