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    Green feathers on white-winged doves?

    Is it gender-related? Seasonal? Matter of age or maturity? Don't know. Answer may come from examination of birds shot by hunters. What other color signals may go unnoted by guidebooks?
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    Green feathers on white-winged doves?

    Observation confirmed 10-15-17. A small patch of multi-hued green that flashes in the sunlight when the sun is nearly overhead. The patch os located just behind and a little below the black neck bar. The same bird? Possible but not likely. Is the "green flash" seasonal? Maybe...
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    Green feathers on white-winged doves?

    Nothing so far, though I haven't spent much time scanning white winged dove necks. White winged doves are the second most common bird at my feeders, after house sparrows. Occurs to me I haven't been seeing as many big white winged doves with the onset of cold weather, versus smaller ones...
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    Green feathers on white-winged doves?

    Last week at mid-day I was looking at a pair of white-winged doves from outside my kitchen door with 8 X 36 Monarch binoculars -- distance about 20 feet -- when I caught a green flash off the neck of one dove. I kept looking and saw on both birds distinct bright green feathers in a spray sort...
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