This bird looks to me like a rock dove - but it could be a feral pigeon or an escaped domesticated one. Is there any way to tell them apart? Or is it something else entirely? The picture was taken in our country garden; although we have wood pigeons aplenty, in over three years here this is the first time we have had a pigeon like this.
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Rock dove or feral pigeon? (S. France) (1 Viewer)
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Rock doves and feral pigeons are the same species. Rock doves being wild and feral pigeons being escaped domesticated pigeons. This is a fairly young (less than 6-7 months old) bird. Wild Rock doves (not mixed with feral birds) are extremely rare and according to some experts only restricted now to some Mediterranean islands.
peterarras
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Hi,
it looks like a Rock Dove for me, with the small bill, it's a juvenile one.
But the question is, if we have still pure wild Rock Dove's somewhere!
I'm living in UAE on a big mountain, where hundred's of RD are. When I saw them first time I was very happy to see tham in the wild, they looks really different from the Feral Pigeon's which I know, but everywhere you can see spotted Dove's between!
Cheers
Peter.
it looks like a Rock Dove for me, with the small bill, it's a juvenile one.
But the question is, if we have still pure wild Rock Dove's somewhere!
I'm living in UAE on a big mountain, where hundred's of RD are. When I saw them first time I was very happy to see tham in the wild, they looks really different from the Feral Pigeon's which I know, but everywhere you can see spotted Dove's between!
Cheers
Peter.
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