Doves & Pigeons
Distribution
Found all over the world depending on their species.
Diet
Doves and pigeons mostly eat seeds, insects and worms.
Information
Both dove and pigeon refer to the 308 species of birds from the Columbidae family, Sweet says. There’s no difference between a pigeon and a dove in scientific nomenclature, but colloquial English tends to categorize them by size. Something called a dove is generally smaller than something called a pigeon, but that’s not always the case. A common pigeon, for example, is called both a rock dove and a rock pigeon.
