Subject: Re: Band-tailed Pigeon
Date: Aug 2 10:15:49 1995
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


IOn the Portland area, Band-tails are often seen in the suburban
residential type areas where there is some forest nearby. They come to
the feeders at the Audubon House often. The same goes true furher down
the coast; my first state record in California was a bird in the heavily
landscaped backyard of a family friend in Arcadia.
Sitting pigeons in bad light can be a problem; if they're not
sitting though, band-tails, rock doves, and mourning doves can be easily
separated with practice. Getting good at this makes good practice for
trips to SE Arizona for the various doves down there.

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Ray Korpi
rkorpi at clark.edu
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On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Mike Patrick wrote:

> James Ha asked about the status of Band-tailed Pigeons (BTPI):
>
> I didn't participate in the prior discussion of BTPI - but I would like to
> mention that my neighbor has had a pair in her "forested" Seattle backyard
> (pretty nice of her to provide good forest habitat for the birds and me to
> enjoy :-) for the two years I've been in this house; and last week there
> were *five* in my mountain ash.
>
>
> --
> Michael Patrick
> Radiation Oncology
> Box 356043
> 1959 NE Pacific St.
> Seattle, WA. 98195
> mike at radonc.washington.edu
> (206) 548-4536
>