Danbooru

Dove/pigeon

Posted under General

The terms dove and pigeon are ambiguous, and neither currently have wiki entries explaining how they're supposed to be used. The most straightforward thing would be to say that pigeon should be used for gray birds, and dove for white ones. That's close to the way the tags are currently being used, though there's a number of images where white birds are tagged pigeon which would need to be changed.

The other, probably less important question is whether dove and/or pigeon should be used specifically for the most well-known species (Columba livia), or also for the more obscure species. But there aren't likely to be many images containing those.

Updated by jxh2154

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