The ones who were sitting on our window today.

[pilottttt]

These are a pair of laughing doves that seem to be found here in Uzbekistan, but rarely show themselves.

One of them, later, is on a branch of a nearby tree…

…and started cleaning her feathers.

A little more photos and a more detailed story (in Russian) can be found here.

Comments

[linky]

Beautiful photos!

[pilottttt]

Thank you!

[pauraque]

Lovely!

[pilottttt]

Oh, yes!

[cmcmck]

Lovely birds- a little similar to our collared doves.

How sweet that they came to visit you!

[pilottttt]

It seems that for some reason they liked our window - today I saw them on a branch very close to the window.

[northlands]

Beautiful birds. Thank you for sharing their visit. :)

[pilottttt]

You're welcome!

[shirebound]

They're lovely. I'm glad you saw them.

[pilottttt]

If I had been in another room, maybe I wouldn't have known that we had such guests.

[yourlibrarian]

Laughing doves, what a nice name! These look very like our local mourning doves.

[full_metal_ox]

Today I Learned that doves come in comic and tragic modes.

[pilottttt]

There are about 300 types of them, so there are just enough for all currently existing theatrical genres ;)

[turlough]

Lovely photos of very pretty birds!

[pilottttt]

Thankyou! We were just lucky.

[jesse_the_k]

Outstanding photos ... thanks for sharing.

[pilottttt]

You're welcome!

[pameladean]

Oh, those are great.

I was puzzled how a dove could make a laughing sound (I was thinking of woodpeckers and their raucous utterances), but there are a number of YouTube videos that demonstrate their call very well. It's a nice mellow laugh, but quite hearty too.

P.

[pilottttt]

They usually repeat this a lot of times, so at some point you just stop noticing it.

[zenigotchas]

YES. HELLO BABEYS!!! (っ´ω`c)♡ Laughing doves look so much like bigger diamond doves to me UwU

[pilottttt]

They are just as small, but their color is more like light-brown.

[zenigotchas]

Okay so apparently my spacial reasoning was off in those photos, remind me to not comment on animal pictures when I'm tired

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

So pretty! Thank you for sharing!

[pilottttt]

You're welcome!

[adafrog]

Neat, thanks.

[pilottttt]

;)