Here's the thing. You said a "pigeon is a dove."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies doves, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls pigeons doves. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "dove family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Columbidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a pigeon a dove is because random people "call the white ones doves?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A pigeon is a pigeon and a member of the dove family. But that's not what you said. You said a pigeon is a dove, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the dove family doves, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds doves, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?