ID Fledgling grey down, long beak? (1 Viewer)

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st4rgut

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #1

Hi, found this fledgling by the road today, and placed him next to the closest tree. Curious what type of bird it is. I found the long beak and yellow strings hanging from his feathers unusual. Also, when I got close to it, it would flap its wing at me and chomp its beak.

Would appreciate if anyone could ID this bird in the photo. I live in Walnut CA, not walnut creek

 

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_pauls

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #2

Welcome to birdforum - its some form of pigeon or dove.

 

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st4rgut

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #3

Thanks, we have lots of doves in our area, so I suppose that's what it is, do you know what the yellow strings are?

 

_pauls

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #4

The straggly yellow bits are normal - we had a young woodpigeon in our garden this year and was exactly the same.

You can see some of the stages of development in a baby pigeon here which shows this quite well.

 

Andy Adcock

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #5

st4rgut said:

Thanks, we have lots of doves in our area, so I suppose that's what it is, do you know what the yellow strings are?

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Part of the early, very young structures covering the body which are mainly hidden by the proper growing feathers which are replacing them I think.

Look closely and you'll see that they are actually under the feathers.



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birdmeister

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #6

Combination of yellow bill with black tip and slight pinkish hue on the underparts suggests Band-tailed Pigeon to me.