[obol] Re: Common Ground-Dove provenance (no it's not an escapee)

  • From: "Paul Sullivan" <paultsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:56:42 -0700

This provenance question is not one I would raise -- or even know about...
;-) I'd just be happy to see a Common Ground-Dove in Oregon.

For those of us in the hoi poloi, what does "eastern" and "western" mean in
this context?

Paul Sullivan
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Subject:
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 13:27 pm
From: jeffgilligan10 AT gmail.com 
That is interesting. It looked redder to me than the ones I see in Arizona.
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On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:15 AM, David Irons wrote:

Greetings All,

Photos of this bird shared via Facebook have elicited some discussion
about which population it may have come from. Males from the eastern
population tend to be more colorful below than their western counterparts.
Upon reviewing literature and looking at illustrations (particularly
Sibley's) I began to wonder if this might be an eastern bird. Professional
tour leader Daniel Lane raised this question in response to a Facebook
posting on the ABA Rare Bird Alert page. Definitely something to ponder.

It should be noted that northerly vagrancy of Common Ground-Doves became a
thing in the east before it seemed to start occurring here. Food for
recreational thought.

Dave Irons
Portland, OR1



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