Barbary dove English

Meaning Barbary dove meaning

What does Barbary dove mean?

Barbary dove noun

— A domesticated dove with unclear taxonomic classification, often treated as its own species as Streptopelia risoria, sometimes as a subspecies of either Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto or African collared dove Streptopelia roseogrisea, and sometimes not as separate species at all, freely breeding with the above species.