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Re: more RT dove photos
- To: CarolinaBirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: more RT dove photos
- From: Michal Skakuj <mskakuj@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:28:21 -0400
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OK, so that is not a typical Collarde Dove, it is not a Collared Dove at
all.
Birds is much too dark rusty for any variation of wild Collared. Wing
coverts and especially uppertail is far to reach in colors for Collared.
Back and wing coverts look like in Laughing Dove, however secondaries
and greater coverts are too dark. Breast looks almost as in some Stock
Dove/Wood Pigeon.Underwing is way too dark for Collared but underwing
coverts are lighter than in Laughing Dove. It may fit to some of the
color mutations of "Ringneck Dove" but not exactly (tail is too
blackish) , see:
<http://www.concannon.net/wilmer/Wilmer%27s%20WebPage/GENETICS_OF_RINGNECKS.htm>
So, for me the bird look very much like some escape color phase of
"Ringneck Dove" (Streptopelia "roseaogrisea" risoria ?) or some other
kind of bastard or mutation of most probably Streptopelia roseogrisea.
That means I am not able to make a positive ID of the bird. Furthermore
as an escape and hybrid/mutant individual, in my opinion, it shouldn't
be consider as a species on North Carolina Bird List.
Mike
Will Cook wrote:
I just uploaded some more photos of the Ringed Turtle-Dove specimen from the
NC Museum of Natural Sciences, showing more of the bird, including the top
side:
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/pix/temp/dove/
Any further comments?
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