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[va-bird] Re: White Doves?

  • From: Scott Baron <brnpelican@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rwoodall@xxxxxxx, va-bird <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 09:24:06 -0800 (PST)
Hi,

"White doves" released at weddings and such are really
just white phase Rock Pigeons, or the white phase of
Ringed Turtle Dove.  The latter is not really a
species but a domestic form of the African
Collared-Dove. 

Scott Baron
--- Roy Woodall <rwoodall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello VaBirders.
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/uglytomasso/MorningDoves
> 
> Can anyone identify these doves for me?  
> I'm a little perplexed as I couldn't find them in
> Sibley's, 
> although they do appear to be the sort of doves
> released by
> the Pope or conjured up by magicians.  
> 
> They were seen 14 December 2006 and 
> several days following on an outbuilding roof of 
> my property on Harris Creek off Back River in 
> Hampton, VA .  No sight of them since.  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Roy 


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