“ Shoo, shoo,” Nimi said, waving her towel at the pigeon perched on the dressing table inside her room. She had left her room ...

The large, heavily built gray pigeon frequents ... coverts show as a broad wing stripe when in flight. Adult male: gray on the head, and breast tinged pinkish; narrow white half-collar across ...

A medium-size compact pigeon with long wings and a short tail. Birds most closely resembling their wild ancestors are gray with head and neck darker than back, and a prominent white rump.