Tag: Columbiformes

• of the genus Zenaida (named 
  after the naturalist’s wife) 
  macroura (from the Greek for 
  large and tailed) a member of the 
  dove family, Columbidae, the 
  
  singular member of the order 
  Columbiformes, which we can trace to  
  before the meteorite. Mourning dove,  
  chueybird, turtledove, or rain dove, once
  
  Carolina pigeon slash turtledove.
  About a dozen of you little plump 
  grey-brown folk squatting in the limbs above 
  
  old snow the light hadn’t started yet to 
  dull the little blue that circles your eyes 
  

  March 31, 2026

  blue, chueybird, Columbidae, Columbiformes, dove, eyes, macroura, mourning dove, naturalist, snow, turtledove, wife, Zenaida

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