Pigeons live in large flocks, but their patterns and density of color vary greatly. You’ll find many of them in urban areas.
Species order and family: Columbiformes, Columbidae
Size: 13 in (33 cm)
Lives in cities where there are lots of people rather than natural environments. Has an herbivorous diet of seeds and grain, but sometimes eats insects too.
Pigeon’s body
Colored pencils used for pigeon
Sketch the shape of the body with bluish gray, coloring in along the way. Press down lightly within the wing. Using midnight gray, draw the beak and the nose flap above it, the pattern on the wing, and the tail. With reddish orange and black, draw the eye.
Draw the feet with your fuchsia pencil, and then use it again along with turquoise to create the pattern on the neck and chest. Layer over the colors with pale green and lavender. It’s easy to deepen colors by layering the lighter ones over the darker ones.
The claws can be drawn with midnight gray, but switch to dark gray to roughly go back over the entire body. Lastly, color in areas on the wing with white.
Size: 13 in (33 cm)
Does not live in flocks and is found in residential areas. You can often hear their calls.
Sky blue for the neck
Salmon pink for the scaled pattern on the wings
Size: 13 in (33 cm)
Though it mainly lives in the woods and forests, you’ll sometimes see one at the shoreline during summertime.
The gradations of color in its feathers include yellow, chartreuse, baby blue, mauve, and midnight gray.