English:  Laughing Dove, Palm Dove, Senegal Dove, Indian Little Brown Dove
Russian: Малая горлица
Mongolian: Өөдсөн хүүрзгэнэ 
German: Palmtaube 
French: Tourterelle maillee  
Japanese:  ワライバト (Warai-bato)

Body length: 23-26 cm.
Wing span: 40-45 cm

Breeds in small woods, plantations and gardens, often close to houses, also in urban areas so long as vegetation exists; typical bird of desert oases (where partly introduced). Resident. Bold. Nests in thick bushes and trees.

Identification: A small and slim, rather long-tailed and short-winged dove. In the field appears mainly reddish-brown at moderate range; close to, shows blue-grey panel on wings between dark grey remiges and blotchy red-brown upperparts (blue more extensive than on Turtle Dove), and all-white undertail. Black and ochre pattern on crop is diagnostic. In flight rather like Turtle Dove (e.g. similarly patterned uppertail and dark underwing), but told by more uniformly brown back (without black feather centres) and usually visibly slightly longer tail and shorter wings.