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pdabbadabbatoday at 5:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.


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meatmanektoday at 6:32 AM

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

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oneeyedpigeontoday at 10:23 AM

Homing pigeon has a nice response :)