Ahh, I see Ned has more synapses firing than I do. Now I remember we
had preferred Ringed Turtle-Dove as our ID of the 2006 bird. But that
begs the question, which one was last week's bird?

Marc Hoffman
Kirkland, WA
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At 06:34 AM 4/14/2008, you wrote:
>Marc and Tweeters . . .
>
>I had concluded that the dove we saw in 2006 was a Ringed
>Turtle-Dove (or African Collared-Dove) and not a Eurasian. The two
>are very similar in appearance, though the Ringed is smaller with
>lighter primaries and overall more pale than the Eurasian. The
>Ringed apparently is much more likely to be kept as a pet.
>
>I have a small gallery of the April 2006 bird.
>
>http://www.pbase.com/nmcgarry/ringed_td
>
>Of course I'm open to any follow-up opinions as to whether this was
>a Eurasian, though I still believe it was a tame/escaped Ringed TD
>as I recall the size to be more consistent with the 11" vs. 13" for
>the Eurasian. The primaries also seem lighter, but I'll have to see
>if I can dig up my original images to make sure photo processing
>didn't result in misrepresented tones. I don't generally mess with
>color saturation when I prepare my images, so I think that "what we
>see is what we get" with these shots.
>
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