Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close relatives.

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a ...

Adult female: similar. Juvenile: paler; buff fringes on feathers of the upperparts; black collar obscured or missing. The ringed turtle-dove is smaller, shorter-tailed, and noticeably paler ...

Monotypic. Length 8.3". A small gray dove with black fringes on the feathers of both the upper and underparts forming an obvious “scaled” appearance. In flight, shows chestnut on the upper and ...