Ethiopia: Immature Lemon Dove? (1 Viewer)

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jstanleyg

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• Jun 27, 2016

• #1

What do you think? Immature Lemon Dove?

 

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jstanleyg

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• Jun 28, 2016

• #2

Any thoughts? I still haven't seen any photos from searching online that look like this one. To me, the green-ish nape makes it pretty certain that it's a Lemon Dove.

 

Nutcracker

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• Jun 29, 2016

• #3

No experience of the species, but on general pigeon principles, the bill looks like that of a quite recently fledged squab (I think - but treat with caution, always possible it may not apply to this species!).

 

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MacNara

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• Jun 29, 2016

• #4

jstanleyg said:

To me, the green-ish nape makes it pretty certain that it's a Lemon Dove.

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I think it has to be. I couldn't find any photos like this either. But the book says that immature is 'similar [to adult]...but with some rufous edging to the breast feathers' (and from this photo also to the back and wings).

If you want to be kind, you could post this photo on the Bird Forum Gallery, and then it will appear in the list of photos that comes up when people click the link at the end of the Opus article on Lemon Dove, and thus be useful to others searching for this pattern.

 

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jstanleyg

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• Jun 29, 2016

• #5

Good idea. I'll do that!