The Best Pigeons
Birds in North and South America are great, but I have to admit there are some departments where the New World can't even hope to compete with the Old World. Kingfishers are one of those- there are only 6 species of kingfisher in North and South America combined, while there are 9 just on the island I live on right now. Doves and pigeons are another. They tend to be rather dull and not terribly diverse in the Americas, whereas here in Southeast Asia especially evolution kind of went crazy with them. Fruit Doves and Imperial Pigeons are spectacular and good-looking, and then there are some really weird ones like the crowned pigeons or the Tooth-billed Pigeon . Another weird one is the Nicobar Pigeon, a massive, ground-dwelling pigeon with long, shiny-green feathers that look like hair. It's found throughout Southeast Asia, but mostly on small, uninhabited islands as it's not tolerant to almost any disturbance of its habitat. In the Philippines, there are only tw