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.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Rock Dove (Columba livia)

1/16/11 On our property next to the fenceline with our neighbor's

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Rock Dove

SPECIES: Columba livia

FAMILY: Columbidae (Pigeons & Doves)

LIFE LIST DATE: Not sure - I've seen them since I was a young kid (and not recording life lists yet)

From Kaufman Focus Guide-Birds of North America:

HABITAT/BEHAVIOR: The familiar "city pigeon," native to wild rocky areas of Europe but domesticated worldwide. Now lives in a semi wild state over much of North America. Mostly nests on buildings and bridges, but a few nests on cliffs in wilder areas. 

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 13"; The ancestral type has pale gray badly, darker head, white rump, tow black bars on wings. Feral flocks, include a wide variety of other color forms.

VOICE: Soft cooking, with hollow gurgling sound. 
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