Pigeons and doves: birds with a stout body, short legs and a small head, notable for feeding nestlings a nutrient-rich secretion from the crop lining ('crop milk') rather than regurgitated food alone.
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ28078, descriptionView the Source 2. Catalogue of Life
Wikidata: Columbiformes
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