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Puppypopper · Senior Member

Have you seen one of these ?

PA Crownut · Veteran Member

Thats wild. An albino dove, thats really cool. I would think he would have a hard time not being a snack dressed like that.

jonthepain · Guru

all he needs is a little black bowtie.

8fishermen · Guru

That's one cool bird.

administrator · Crow Busters Administrator

Yes, we had one in our yard off and on for about two weeks a couple of years ago. My wife swore that it was the Holy Spirit visiting us. I told her I could arrange some taxidermy work that would make the Holy Spirit a permanent guest, but she gave me the stink eye and said something about all my other mounts having to go if this one showed up. Women!

Bob · Guru

That bird looks to large to be a turtle dove, so is it a crow? I couldn't get a good look at his beak to see how long it was, but it looks like a young crow because of it's size in the photo.

Bob A.

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

Almost too tall to be a dove.... at least here in PA. Most of the doves here are low enough to the ground that you can barely see their legs. But I'm sure there are other species of doves around the U.S.A. Its body looks a little crowish but its head does not. Maybe a pigeon????? Very interesting indeed.

Hammer

chip · Guru

I think what you may have pup is a collard dove. An albino at that!!! I have noticed that these collard doves have been coming on strong. They are breeding with our mourning doves and the species is spreading like wild fire. I think they got started in florida. They are half again as big as the mournig dove but not as big as a pigeon, google it and check it out. Dylan and I killed several hundred doves around Ridgeway last year in the popcorn fields. We killed at least 75 to a 100 collard doves in the mix. They have a much larger breast and it takes a bigger piece of bacon to wrap around the breast on the grill biggrin biggrin biggrin

-- Edited by chip on Thursday 18th of August 2011 04:40:00 PM

10gacrowshooter · Senior Member

hi, it is a homing pigeon, they get lost in a race some time and take a break from flying. you should have seen a band on one or both of the legs. you should be able to get close to them or even pick it up. 10 ga cs

Yote59 · Veteran Member

10gacrowshooter is right...its a pigeon.....I have lots of white ones around the farm. They build nests in the barn every year and raise. Quite common here in the KY.

doccerny · Veteran Member

I'm with Chip, looks like a Eurasian collared dove. You see quite a few of them that are real light or white.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Bob wrote:
That bird looks to large to be a turtle dove, so is it a crow? I couldn't get a good look at his beak to see how long it was, but it looks like a young crow because of it's size in the photo.

Bob A.

too funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon

There is a famous homer, Cher Ami, stuffed and mounted in the Smithsonian Air and Space musuem. It was wounded and still carried it's message in support of the "Lost Battalion", and credited with saving 200 men.

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Friday 19th of August 2011 02:28:30 PM

Bob · Guru

Pete, (NH)

That was interesting reading just how long they have been using homing pigeons. Wow they date back 3,000 years!

Bob A.

Virginian · Veteran Member

That's wild looking. Thanks for posting.