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Laughing Dove

Spilopelia senegalensis · Family Columbidae

Spilopelia senegalensis

Family Columbidae

Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,506,628
Countries and territories with records
137
Laughing Dove
Giles Laurent · 140 Laughing dove in Twyfelfontein Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · L. Shyamal · S-senegalensis.ogg · CC BY 2.5 · L. Shyamal · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,506,628 occurrence records from 137 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (32.8%), India (28.6%), Israel (8.5%), Australia (4.4%) and the United Arab Emirates (3.6%); together they account for 78% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 1.2% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Spilopelia senegalensis combines the genus name Spilopelia with the species epithet senegalensis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Spilopelia: Spilopelia chinensis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 314 species of the family Columbidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zenaida macroura. Its record count is 5.1 times the family average (296,782). The family Columbidae belongs to the order Columbiformes, which has 314 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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