The "Ring neck dove" from the other website you have photos of is just one
of hundreds of colour variations the Ring neck dove comes in. it looks
like your bird may be what they call a "wild Type" ring neck dove. from the
photos the under parts of your dove look white which confirms above. an
escapee.
Eurasian Collared Dove numbers should be dropping as there is a open season
on them in the states that have regulated Dove hunting.
hope this helps.
Dean Ware
Wheatley
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Further to Possible Eurasian Collared-Dove - Innisfil ON
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:37:05 -0400
The subject bird was seen again today, by David Randle on my property in
the
Sandy Cove area of Innisfil, ON at about 11.50 a.m.
The sighting was witnessed by my two neighbours - I was out looking to see
if I could see it, and I called my neighbours over when I did see it.
It was halfway up a small birch tree on the front of my property. I was
able to shoot one additional photo, which is not of much further help and
not as good a shot as those shown previously.
(http://www.scoutscan.net/dgr
click "birds")
I was endeavouring to get underneath the bird to get a photo of the
underside when someone locally slammed a car door and it took off and flew
away. However, as it flew away, without photo confirmation, I can say that
the rear underside was splayed out, with white feathers to the outside and
dark or black feathers running from about the centre of the bird backwards
to the rear on the inside of the underside. I am sorry I am not familiar
enough with terms to be able to tell you in proper terminology.
I will check back again later to see if it has returned.
In the effort to identify this bird, someone drew my attention to a web
site
showing the differences between the Eurasian CD and Ringed TD at
http://esaudubon.org/photos/eurasian_collared_dove.htm . Using only those
photos I would have to say the bird I am seeing here is much more like the
photo displayed of the Eurasian than of the ringed.
David Randle
Innisfil, ON
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