The upper body feathers of turtledove are mainly brown, and the head and neck are grayish brown, dyed with wine color; The forehead and the top of the head are gray or blue-gray, and there are Kuroha with blue-gray feather edges on both sides of the base of the back neck, and the shoulder feather edges are reddish brown; The upper back is brown, and the lower back to the waist is blue-gray; The tail end is blue-gray, and the central tail feather is brown; Pink chin and throat; The lower body is reddish brown. Male and female feathers are similar in color.
Breeding mode:
The breeding time of turtledove is from April to July. It produces 2 litters a year and usually comes in pairs when it moves here. Nest in trees in the forest, and also in bamboo forests, solitary trees or bushes next to houses. Usually nest on branches near the trunk, and the height from the ground is 1.5-8m. The nest is very simple, mainly made of dead branches, disc-shaped and loose in structure. You can see the eggs or chickens in the nest from below. The size of the nest is14-18cm×16-20cm, 8-10cm× 8-1cm, 4-8cm high and 3-5cm deep.
There is no inner cushion in the nest, or only a few leaves, moss and feathers are padded. Each nest lays 2 eggs, which are white, oval, smooth and without spots. The size of the eggs is 28-37mm×2 1-27mm and the weight is 7- 12g. Male and female parents take turns to hatch eggs. During the incubation period, they love nests very much. Sometimes people walk under the nest, or don't stay away from the nest. The incubation period is 18- 19 days.
Chickens are late. When they first hatched, the chicks were naked and featherless, with only a few yellow hairs on their bodies. Young birds are raised by their parents, who put their mouths into their parents' mouths and feed on the semi-digested milky white food' pigeon milk' spit out by their parents from the bellows. After 18-20 days of feeding, the young birds can leave the nest and fly.
Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-turtledove