The call of a turtledove sounds a lot like a pigeon's.
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斑 means 'spotted/striped' — these doves have a distinctive black-and-white speckled neck patch, so the name reads literally as 'spotted dove'.
culture
In 庄子·逍遥游 (Zhuāngzǐ – Xiāoyáo Yóu), the turtledove 斑鸠 famously mocks the giant Peng bird's enormous flight — the proverbial small-minded creature that can't conceive of grand ambition.
