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Birds&Breathing · Tuesday 26th July 2011, 17:15

This dove hung around my backyard yesterday, July 25. It was a very pale gray, nearly white, with a distinct black collar around the back of his neck. Pink legs and feet. It was alone. It was the size of a mourning dove. It perched on my railing and perched in the tree. It flew down below the feeder. I have attempted to attach some utterly miserable quality pictures.

albanpc · Tuesday 26th July 2011, 17:42

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Originally Posted by Birds&Breathing

This dove hung around my backyard yesterday, July 25. It was a very pale gray, nearly white, with a distinct black collar around the back of his neck. Pink legs and feet. It was alone. It was the size of a mourning dove. It perched on my railing and perched in the tree. It flew down below the feeder. I have attempted to attach some utterly miserable quality pictures.

Sounds like a Collared Dove - introduced from Europe.

Alban

Birds&Breathing · Tuesday 26th July 2011, 18:42

I am trying to attach a different photo. Thanks for the response.

Birds&Breathing · Tuesday 26th July 2011, 18:48

Could it be the ringed turtle-dove? It was very pale, as seen above

fugl · Tuesday 26th July 2011, 19:47

Could be. It's certainly pale enough. Ringed Turtle-doves are smaller than Eurasian Collared-doves, hardly larger than Mourning Doves.

Tuesday 26th July 2011, 17:15	#1
Birds&Breathing Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Edison, NJ Posts: 21	dove, middlesex county, central NJ This dove hung around my backyard yesterday, July 25. It was a very pale gray, nearly white, with a distinct black collar around the back of his neck. Pink legs and feet. It was alone. It was the size of a mourning dove. It perched on my railing and perched in the tree. It flew down below the feeder. I have attempted to attach some utterly miserable quality pictures.

Tuesday 26th July 2011, 18:42	#3
Birds&Breathing Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Edison, NJ Posts: 21	photo I am trying to attach a different photo. Thanks for the response. Attached Thumbnails

Tuesday 26th July 2011, 19:47	#5
fugl Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 7,560 My location	Could be. It's certainly pale enough. Ringed Turtle-doves are smaller than Eurasian Collared-doves, hardly larger than Mourning Doves. __________________ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugl/ ". . .Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." --Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Birds&Breathing Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Edison, NJ Posts: 21	Could it be the ringed turtle-dove? It was very pale, as seen above

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