[texbirds] Fw: Probable Spotted Doves at MCWHA

From: "Georgina Schwartz" <gbird@xxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:11:27 -0500
Dies anyone out there know anything about spotted doves in Texas?
Georgina Schwartz
San Antonio
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From: Robert Norris 
To: Comalbirds 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:23 PM
Subject: Probable Spotted Doves at MCWHA


Friday a.m. I had a small flock of doves I can identify only as Spotted Doves, 
as improbable as that seems. There was a small flock of 8-10 doves on the fence 
wires , a few on each side of Schwarzelose in the area of the small burn on the 
Habitat. A few Mourning Doves were on the high wires above them and a huge 
flock of Mournings just down the way on the high wires.

The birds on the fence line caught my attention because one I could see well 
seemed to have an all white underneath tail. AS I eased the truck closer, 
stopping every few yards to look, they began to fly off 2 or 3 at the time and 
disappeared in the tall grass in the pasture across from the Habitat. One was 
especially cooperative and finally I was looking at it head on at maybe 10-15 
yards.

The bottom side of the tail was all white up nearly to the base. It was long 
and relatively slim and was sort of scalloped on the end, not square but 
certainly not pointed. When the birds flew, the top side of the tail was 
similar to a White-wing, except that the white band extended further up toward 
the base at the edges.. The wings were dark brown and showed no white, either 
flying or at rest. The body was a lighter brown, but much more brown than our 
other doves of that size. I did not detect any pinkish cast as some books 
depict. Also, I did not get good enough look at thenape to see if any had the 
namesake patch of spots. The books say that younger birds do not have the 
spots. In size, they were similar to the Mourning Doves--perhaps a little 
heavier bodied.

Does  anyone know of any effort to transplant Spotted Doves from California to 
this area? Also, does anyone know of any other species that my description 
might fit?

Bob



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