The term of dove is a vernacular Nom indicating some Oiseau X of the subfamily of the Columbinés. However generally the dove term indicates the white variety of a Tourterelle. Smallest of all the doves is the dove diamond which one easily finds in animalery. A white dove holding an olive branch in the nozzle, without precision of, is a Symbole of Paix.

Named species doves

Many members of of Columbidés smaller than the pigeons, are called doves, this list is variable according to the uses:

• Dove - Tourterelle domesticates white or white Pigeon.

• Dove with black wings - Metriopelia will melanoptera
• Colombe with yellow nozzle - Columbina cruziana
• Colombe with gray cap - Leptotila plumbeiceps
• Colombe with crescents - Geotrygon mystacea
• Colombe with white face - Leptotila will megalura
• Colombe with gray face - Leptotila rufaxilla
• Colombe with white throat - Geotrygon frenata
• Colombe with white cheeks - Geotrygon chrysia
• Dove with long tail - Uropelia campestris
• Dove with nape of the neck violet - Geotrygon violacea
• Dove with black tail - Columbina passerina
• Dove with blue head - Starnoenas cyanocephala
• Dove with the blue eyes - Columbina cyanopis
• Colombe will aymara - Metriopelia will aymara
• bluish Colombe - Claravis pretiosa
• attached Colombe - Geotrygon linearis

• Dove of Buckley - Columbina buckleyi
• Dove of Cassin - Leptotila cassini
• Dove of Cecile - Metriopelia ceciliae
• Dove of Chapman - Leptotila ochraceiventris
• Dove of Conover - Leptotila conoveri
• Dove of Geoffroy - Claravis godefrida
• Dove of Goldman - Geotrygon goldmani
• Dove of Grenade - Leptotila wellsi
• Dove of Gundlach - Geotrygon caniceps
• Dove of Jamaica - Leptotila jamaicensis
• Dove of Lawrence - Geotrygon lawrencii
• Dove of Moreno - Metriopelia morenoi
• Dove of Veragua - Geotrygon veraguensis
• Dove of Verreaux - Leptotila verreauxi
• Dove of the clouds - Geotrygon albifacies
• Dove diamond - Geopelia cuneata
• Dove of Chiriqui - Geotrygon chiriquensis
• Dove of Costa Rica - Geotrygon costaricensis
• Dove of Panama - Leptotila battyi
• scaled Dove - Columbina squamata
• Dove INCA - Columbina INCA
• Dove mondétour - Claravis will mondetoura
• pale Colombe - Leptotila pallida
• Colombe picui - Columbina picui
• Colombe Pygmy - Columbina minuta
• russet-red Colombe - Columbina talpacoti
• Colombe rouviolette - Geotrygon Montana
• Dove sapphire - vareigated Geotrygon saphirina
• Dove - Geotrygon versicolor

Symbolic system

In the Symbolic system Occident ale, the dove is associated with the Holy Spirit in the works of art inspired by the Christianisme, the Amour and with the Paix (since the 20th century, to see: Dove of peace). In the Bible (Genesis, 8,13), it is a dove which Noah sends since his arch to know if water were withdrawn from the ground after the flood. This one returns in the evening with a branch of olive-tree in the nozzle, thus indicating to Noah that water dropped.

The doves symbolize the love because these animals keep with life unites to them (fidelity).

It is often a Pigeon or a white Tourterelle which are released as a dove.

Culture

One finds already doves represented in the Antiquité, for example on the mosaic S of Pompeï.

The first postal Timbre of the canton Suisse of Basle represented a dove. See Dove of Basle.

Pablo Picasso drew many works including of the doves, of which the Colombe of peace in 1949. Rene Magritte and Georges Braque also painted famous paintings of doves.

Guillaume Apollinaire wrote a well-known calligramme: The stabbed dove and the water jet.