If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Band-Tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata)

8/2/03 Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA 
2/15/03 La Puente, Los Angeles County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Band-Tailed Pigeon

SPECIES: Columba fasciata

FAMILY: Columbidae (Doves & Pigeons)

LIFE LIST DATE: 2/15/2003

LOCATION: Pair on telephone wires in backyard of our old house in La Puente, Los Angeles County, CA

From Kaufman Focus Guide: Birds of North America:

BEHAVIOR/HABITAT: This big wild pigeon of the west may be common all year on the Pacific seaboard, in oak woods, pines, foothills. In the interior, mostly a summer resident and mostly in the mountains. Travels in flocks, feeding on acorns, berries.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 14"; large, colorful. Note narrow white band across nape (absent on juveniles), yellow base of bill, wide gray tail band. Purplish pink on head and chest, with green iridescence on neck.

VOICE: A deep, double-noted cooing, huh-whoooo. 
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