Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Walter Sobchak on February 24, 2007, 03:58:48 PM

Title: White Dove Question
Post by: Walter Sobchak on February 24, 2007, 03:58:48 PM

I see these fellas all the time...are the from a wedding or something?  What kind of dove are they?

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Title: White Dove
Post by: JTF on February 24, 2007, 05:21:24 PM

Looks like a white colour varation of a Rock Dove.

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Post by: Walter Sobchak on February 24, 2007, 06:30:27 PM

Rock dove? there were five in a row, and there where no "regular" rock doves nearby.  These boys were pure white...I'm thinking they were domestic escapees.

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Post by: Carl-Adam on February 24, 2007, 09:16:11 PM

Hey, I see white Rock Doves downtown from time to time.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on February 25, 2007, 02:40:11 PM

My guess is that they are escapees.  Maybe from a magician?

They look a bit slim for a Rock Pigeon.  Maybe Collared or Turtle Doves?  Whatever species, they appear to be albino or partial albino.  I see a bit of black in the tail of one, but they all have pink bills and feet.  

To find a single albino is rare enough, but five all together?  Only if they escaped together!

BB

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Post by: Pat Hodgson on February 26, 2007, 10:31:50 AM

They release these things every once in a while in ceremonies at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, and other places too I'm sure.  They make good hawk food if nothing else.