The Red-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas flavirostris) inhabits from the Southwest part of Mexico and South Texas to Costa Rica. Ranges up to 2100 m, in agricultural areas or woods. Its size is of 30 cm (12 inches) and its weight is 230 g.

Its bill is ivory-white to pale pink with a rose-pink base and cere. The legs are magenta and eyes are red. The head, neck and breast are purple, and the back is dark brownish-gray. This feathered creature feeds on berries, acorns and buds.

The Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) ranges from the Southwest part of Canada to Northwest part of Argentina. They live in Mountains sites, more than 3.000 m above sea, generally in oak, pine-oak, and coniferous forests. Its size is 35 cm (14 inches) and its weight is 315g.

The plumage is gray, the band-tailed pigeon is large, with a long tail, yellow bill and white crescent on nape. It feeds in acorns, seeds and fruits such as Pacific Madrona and Toyon berries.

The Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea) lives from Costa Rica to the West side of Ecuador, Bolivia and Amazonia Brazil. It lives in high-elevations forest (up to 1500 meters), usually alone or in small groups. Adults are 28 cm (12 inches) in height and 170 g in weight.

This bird is smallish, dark, with black and short bill, and feet magenta. Head, neck and underparts dull vinaceous. Wings and tail dark olive-brown with purplish gloss. It feeds on fruits of trees, epiphytes, and shrubs, especially mistletoe berries.

The Short Billed-Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris) breeds from South Mexico to the Northwest part of Colombia. Inhabits in forest canopy, edge and semi open woods. Adults are 26.5 cm (11 inches) in height and 150 g in weight.

This dark small bird has a short and thick black bill. Matures have upperparts dark olive-brown and head, neck and breast dull-vinaceuos. Youngers have head, neck and breast grayish-brown. Eats fruits of mistletoes and Cecropia, berries of trees and shrubs.

The Inca Dove (Columbina inca) is also known as Mexican dove, this bird resides from the southwest part of United States to Costa Rica. Despite being named after the Inca Empire, this species does not occur in any of the lands that once constituted that empire. Its size is 20 cm (8 inches).

This is a small dove. It has a gray-brown body covered in feathers pale grayish, scaled with black, long and white-edged tail. Inca Dove usually lives in small groups or in pairs and largely terrestrial, and rests and sleeps in trees.

The Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina) inhabits the southern United States, parts of Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. The bird spends the majority of its time on the ground walking but still has the capacity to fly and it is also called Scaly-breasted Ground-Dove. The measures are 16 cm (6 inches) in heights and 40 g in weights.
It has a yellow beak with a black tip. Feathers surrounding the beak are pink in color. The tail feathers are very short and similar color to the back. The plumage on the back of the bird is brown.

Plain-breasted Ground-Dove (Columbina minuta) has a large but discontinuous distribution. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are savanna, shrubland and lowland grassland. Its size is 14 cm (5 inches) and its weight 33 g.

This small dove has a plain breast and brownish cere and bill, a crown and nape bluish-gray. The rest of the upperparts are grayish-brown. Wings are tinged with pink and spotted with metallic violet.

The Ruddy-Ground Dove (Columbina talpacoti) ranges from North Mexico to Northwest Peru, North Argentina and North Paraguay. Prefers open areas like pastures, agricultural fields or in forested areas but avoiding the interior part of woods. This bird has 16.5 cm (6 inches) in size and 48 g in mass.

Adults have a head pale gray, forehead and throat whitish, and neck, chest, rump and back purplish-chestnut. Legs and feet are flesh and the bill and cere yellowish to brownish. Often seen in roads, up to 1200 meters above sea, looking for seeds and fruits.

The Blue Ground-Dove (Claravis pretiosa)lives from the Southwest part of United States to Peru and Argentina. This vertebrate is most common in open woodland, forest edges, clearings and roadsides, especially in more humid areas, in Caribbean and South Pacific slopes. It is found from sea level to about 1200 m altitude. Its size is 20 cm (8 inches) and its weight 72 g.

Adults males have blue-grey upperparts and paler grey underparts, becoming grey-white on the face. Blue ground doves occur singly, in pairs or sometimes in small groups. They feed mainly on the ground on seeds and small insects.