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	Dove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
		A dove was supposed to have been released by Noah after the flood in order to find land; it came back carrying an olive branch, telling Noah that, somewhere, there was land.
		A molecular phylogeny of the dove genera Streptopelia and Columba; Auk 118, 4 (2001): 874-887
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dove (418 words)

	emerald dove chalcophaps indica
		Emerald Doves feed on fallen fruit and seeds (including grass seeds, figs and bamboo).
		Pigeons and doves do not have well-developed oil glands, which in other birds are used to waterproof their feathers.
		Emerald Doves appear to have a limited breeding season from April to September.
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Chalcophaps_indica.htm (716 words)

	Dove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The doves are the 308 species of near passerine birds in the order Columbiformes, hence the adjective columbine refers to something being dove-like.
		A dove with an olive branch, then, has come to symbolize peace.
		See also Pigeon intelligence, and River Dove for the river.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/d/do/dove.html (273 words)

	Emerald Dove -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The flight (The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds) feathers and tail are flish, and broad fl and white bars show on the lower back in flight.
		Males perform a bobbing dance during (A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)) courtship.
		Emerald Dove is the state bird of the Indian State of (A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras) Tamil Nadu.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emerald_dove.htm (407 words)

	Dove - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)

The doves are the 308 species of near passerine birds in the order Columbiformes, hence the adjective columbine refers to something being dove-like.

In Christian iconography a dove also symbolizes the Holy Spirit, in reference to the Baptism of Jesus where the Holy Spirit appeared as a dove.

Barbary Dove Streptopelia risoria (domesticated; taxonomic status doubtful)

open-encyclopedia.com /Dove (359 words)

	Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club - Articles - Doves, Doves, Doves!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Doves are also known as Pigeons so, as I write, I will be referring to both.
		Doves are not hard to keep; as a matter of fact, they are about the easiest cage birds to manage.
		Doves suck-up water instead of lifting their heads, the same as if you were drinking with a straw.
	www.gccbc.org /Articles/DovesDovesDoves.htm (672 words)

	Emerald Dove - Lamington National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its wings and shoulders are bright emerald green with the edge of the shoulders being white.
		Nest is a scant platform of twigs and leaves built in a bush, a horizontal fork, a mass of vines or on a fern or a tree-fern.
		Emerald doves are sometimes seen walking along tracks or flying across open areas (like near creeks).
	lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au /Documents/Birds/emeralddove.htm (227 words)

	Pigeon And Dove Information Page
		Doves and pigeons are considered to be "game birds" as many species have been hunted and used for food in many of thecountries in which they are native.
		There must, of course, be suitable hiding places on the floor of the aviary for the doves, especially for their young, should they leave the nest early, drop to the ground, and be at the mercy of the larger fowl, which have been known to injure and kill them.
		For such doves, the fancier makes it his business to keep one or more pairs of tame ringneck doves on hand which are to serve as dependable foster parents for the young foreign doves.
	www.gamebird.com /dove.html (2673 words)

	Emerald Dove photo - Robert photos at pbase.com
		Emerald doves have a wide distribution which extends from India through SE Asia to the Phillipines, New Guinea and Vanuatu.
		Wings and shoulders are bright emerald green with the edge of the shoulders bearing a white patch.
		Emerald doves may be encountered singly or in small groups.
	www.pbase.com /image/19951979 (188 words)

	Dove -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Doves feed on (A small hard fruit) seeds, (The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant) fruit and other soft plantstuffs.
		Unlike most other birds, (but see (Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes) flamingo), the doves and pigeons produce "crop milk", which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the (The yield from plants in a single growing season) crop.
		White doves are a traditional symbol of (A strong positive emotion of regard and affection) love and (The state prevailing during the absence of war) peace.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dove.htm (1319 words)

	! Emerald Dove ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		In Australia the Emerald Dove is a common resident of rainforests and adjacent dense vegetation.
		This is often heard while one is walking around the forest, but the bird itself may not be seen, for it may calling from a nest or a perch in the canopy.
		Emerald Doves are found mainly in rainforest, including the monsoonal forest in northern Australia, and the lowland tropical and subtropical rainforest along the east coast of Australia.
	www.lakeeacham.com /emerald_dove.html (537 words)

	Short story - Emerald's Rogue (Part 3) by April Lynn Cain - Page 7 of 8
		On the journey home Emerald realized that in less than five months she would be sixteen and the marriage could be consummated.
		Emerald dove into her lessons and kept very busy with extra activities dealing with being a wife and hostess, but she chided away from learning to be a better mother.
		Emerald is almost 16 and Rogue is 21.
	sffworld.com /authors/c/cain_april_lynn/fiction/emeraldp3p7.html (703 words)

	Dove: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Dove
		Dove: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Dove
		Unlike most other birds, (but see flamingo), the doves and pigeons produce “milk”, which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop.
		A dove was supposed to have been the first creature released by Noah after the flood in order to find land; it came back carrying an olive branch, telling Noah that, somewhere, there was land.
	www.encyclopedian.com /do/Dove.html (255 words)

	NSW HSC ONLINE - Geography
		These include the wonga pigeon and the emerald dove, which feed on fallen fruit on the rainforest floor.
		You are more likely to hear and see the wonga pigeon than the emerald dove.
		The emerald dove, a forest floor dweller, has been badly affected by the introduction of feral species such as the cat and fox, which feed on these birds.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /geography/ecosystems/case_studies/mmfweb/mmf_3.html (1040 words)

	QUARRYNEW
		This is a small ground-feeding dove, common throughout lowland Philippines in primary and secondary forest and open country with scattered clumps of trees.
		The wing-coverts are bright emerald green and flight feathers and tail are fl in the male; the rest of the body is vinaceous except for the grey crown and white forehead, supercilium and carpal patch.
		This is a small, common and rather tame pigeon is a member of a distinct genus of brown fruit doves endemic to the Philippines.
	www.geocities.com /heightaddict/QUARRYNEW (2044 words)

	Profile: Books
		The women in “The Song of an Emerald Dove” are fighting their own holy war as priestesses in their Wiccan religion — fighting in an army of eight on the side of their Goddess and survival.
		Xanna reveals that they are learning the song of the emerald dove and that it is, in a way, an allegorical tale.
		The dove is more than a symbol of peace, however, for it is also the women’s symbol for the mission that the Goddess has given them.
	www.witchvox.com /books/dt_bk.html?id=1032 (2168 words)

	Pigeons and Doves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The long list of land-birds groups is headed by the order Columbiformes, which is dominated by the largely uniform family of pigeons and doves.
		Nearly 300 species strong, members of the pigeon and dove family are found worldwide except in the highest latitudes.
		Pigeons and doves feed their young with a milky substance produced by the adult birds -- a trait that is unique to the family.
	www.paulnoll.com /Oregon/Birds/type-Pigeons.html (155 words)

	Original Artwork: Gene Jarvis: Emerald Dove
		One of the most strikingly beautiful of these birds is the Emerald Dove, whose territory encompasses the area between India and East Australia.
		The Emerald Dove is truly a jewel among birds, with brilliant green wings which almost seem to glow.
		Related closedly to the prolific Turtle Doves, this ground dweller prefers to live in the woodland, and nests in trees or shrubs.
	www.windriverstudios.com /EB5SCQGC.htm (402 words)

	Harvest Shadows Publications - The Song of an Emerald Dove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In a time barely preceding an era of suspected terrorist plots, a group of women are confronted with puzzling psychic messages which foretell an indescribable horror.
		The Priestesses of the Emerald Dove had special ‘gifts’ and years of training.
		DOVE will be available directly from Harvest Shadows and from book distributors.
	www.harvestshadows.com /hsp/press/pr/dove2005_0223.shtml (370 words)

	Encyclopedia: Emerald Dove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms.
		An average Whooping Crane egg is 102 mm long, and weighs 208 grams A baby tortoise emerges from a reptile egg.
		Courtship (sometimes called dating or going steady) is the process of selecting and attracting a mate for marriage or sex.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Emerald-Dove (629 words)

	Kamusi - Search Results
		Cape turtle dove, pl Cape turtle doves { Swahili: hua koge, pl hua koge } [Terminology: ornithology]
		Cape turtle dove, pl Cape turtle doves { Swahili: tetere, pl tetere } [Terminology: ornithology]
		African white-winged dove, pl African white-winged doves { Swahili: hua bawa-jeupe, pl hua bawa-jeupe } [Terminology: ornithology]
	research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=dove&EngP=1 (614 words)

	sh: Tropical Birds - This series of picture cards is offered in the interest of education by Brooke Bond
		The well wooded hills and plains of Ceylon are the home of this beautiful little dove - though its main food consists of seeds which it finds at ground level.
		The nest - though rather better constructed than most doves' and often well concealed - is a scanty platform of twigs through which the eggs can be seen from below.
		It is placed in a sapling or in a bamboo clump five to ten feet from the ground.
	www.whom.co.uk /squelch/tropical_birds.htm (4977 words)

	Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove, Turtur chalcospilos
		Kenya: Common in dry brush areas across most of the country except in the wetter SW regions where it is replaced by the Blue-spotted Wood-Dove.
		A smallish ground dove of dry country areas.
		It is easily identified by its iridescent green wing spots.
	www.kenyabirds.org.uk /emerald.htm (125 words)

	! Doves and Pigeons ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		If there is one single thing that defines the pigeons, it is the presence of the 'crop', a storage sac in the throat.
		Generally, the smaller pigeons often get called 'doves', but this is fairly inconsistent.
		They can generally be split into two different groups, but this is based more on their ecology and diet.
	rainforest-australia.com /Rainforest_Doves_and_Pigeons.htm (275 words)

	Birds of Cockatoo Island: Emerald Dove
		The Emerald Dove is a plump little bird of the rainforest floor with a warm brown head and body, brilliant green wings and two white stripes across its fl back.
		The beak and legs are red and the male Emerald Dove has a white patch on his shoulder.
		It lays two eggs in a neat cup of twigs a few metres above the ground in a tree.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /cockatoo/emeralddove.html (106 words)

	Linked Web: Dove Picture
		dove cartoons, dove cartoon, dove picture, dove pictures, dove image, dove 'This one is for staying a hawk, in world full of doves.'...
		The Mourning Dove in this picture is ruffling his feathers to stay warm on this cold winter day.
		I took so many dove pictures as they hatched, grew and left the nest for my garden, that I have given the...
	www.linkedweb.com /search/dove_picture.html (336 words)

	Australian Animals Mammals Reptiles Birds Amphibians
		The iridescent green wings and shoulders are the most striking features of the emerald ground dove.
		Diet: Seed and fruit eaters, emerald doves will readily eat and disperse the seeds of many introduced plant pests such as lantana, inkweed and wild tobacco.
		Reproduction: Common to all pigeons, male emerald doves carry out an impressive courtship display with rhythmic bowing and cooing repeated many times.
	www.reptilepark.com.au /animals.asp?catID=1&ID=22 (230 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		FIELD CHARACTERS; A large dove with rufous-and-flish scaly patterned upper plumage, slaty gray rump, a fl-and-gray “chest broad” on either side of hind neck, and broad gray terminal fringe to flish rounded tail-the last particularly conspicuous when spread while alighting or in display.
		Distinguished from the commoner Spotted Dove by rich rufous coloration and stocky pigeon-like build.
		Duars, foothills and up to 4000 m, migrating to lower levels and the plains in winter: open mixed forest and bamboo jungle in broken foothills country, often in the neighborhood of cultivation.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/6133/68720 (357 words)

	The Song of An Emerald Dove by Xanna Vinson - Mystery Books
		Underlying the story is the recurring theme of an emissary of their Goddess, the image of an emerald dove that always inspires the women to continue their work.
		The women in Dove are fighting their own holy war because they are priestesses in their Wiccan religion and are fighting in an army of eight on the side of their Goddess and world peace.
		The character Monique in Dove is based on my own granddaughter who is a hydrocephalic honor student — the result of an in utero stroke and a lot of hard work to correct for it.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art33155.asp (1657 words)

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