Laughing Dove
Spilopelia senegalensis
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Pigeons and Doves
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Call and song
Recording 1 · song
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the Laughing Dove
Small, similar in size to European Turtle-Dove. Tail is strikingly long with white corners and a grey center, but is all white underneath. Its body is pastel shades of brown and pink with a spotted black collar. Usually associated with human-modified landscapes, such as plantations, gardens, and urban areas as long as some trees are present. The call is a repetitious “coo- coo coo ru” replicated 5–8 times.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 99 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malawi
- Mali
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territory
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Russia
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
