Galapagos Dove

An overall redish brown dove with a pink wash to its breast, a blue eye-ring, iridesent pink and bronze feathers on its neck, pink legs, a black bill, pale ear coverts bordered by two horizontal black lines and a dark brown back with black and white markings. Sexes are similar, but female is smaller, less rufous, darker brown and with a smaller iridesent patch than male. Juveniles are similar to adults, but are paler, more streaked on their backs, lack the blue-eye ring and iridesent neck patch and have bold markings instead of a clean pink wash on their breasts. The two subspecies found on the archipelag differ only slighter, with birds on Darwin and Wolf being larger and darker than doves across the rest of the islands.