How to distinguish a pigeon from a dove

So, professionals can determine the sex of a pigeon by his appearance. As a rule, males are larger and thicker females, they are more lobes and have a massive bill. The head of females is usually less as their cere. However, determining the gender of a pigeon solely on appearance, it is easy to make mistakes, because plays the key role in rock pigeons. Males of some species can look a lot more graceful and feminine than other females.

To distinguish a dove from a pigeon can feel the pelvic bones of a bird. Under the breast, almost the bird's tail, you can feel two thin pelvic bone. Of females between these bones is always a fairly wide range up to one centimeter. The males pelvic bones nearly touch each other. However, in this method of determining the sex of a pigeon is the share of inaccuracies. For example, very young nulliparous dove bones can be close together.

To determine the sex of a pigeon is also possible on the behavior of birds. For example, during fallow (i.e. the courtship of the male over the female pigeon began to step on the dove. He makes loud sounds, spreading the tail and inflate the goiter. He felt the female pigeon starts to spin around the cage, and then dramatically jump to his. Dove, hooked into a cage with a dove, behaving more "feminine". She "gently" moves to the male on the tail, softly cooing. Taking courtship, usherusher dove feathers on the back and bows to the dove.

If you put a male with another male, they are likely to instigate a fight among themselves. Sometimes a fight can start and pigeons of the opposite sex, but in most cases this is not happening. Two lovebirds, planted in one cell, treat each other calmly, without aggression. It should be noted that for the most accurate determination of sex of a pigeon is better to use all of the above means.