Need Help Identifying This Bird! (1 Viewer)

Hello all, I am located in the foothills of Northern California and saw this bird in my yard this morning and am trying to figure out what species of dove it is. It is definitely bigger than a standard Mourning Dove, and it's coloring is very light buff, almost white with red eyes a black beak and bright reddish legs. I haven't yet heard it call, so can't identify that for you, but any help would be appreciated!
Attached is a photo I took this morning.

Collared Dove


This EURASIAN-COLLARED DOVE was first introduced into the Bahamas in the 1970s and spread to Florida by 1982. Its stronghold in North America is still the Gulf Coast, but it is now found as far south as Veracruz, as far west as California, and as far north as British Columbia and the Great Lakes. Its impact on native species is as yet unknown; it appears to occupy an ecological niche between that of the Mourning Dove and Rock Pigeon; some have suggested that its spread represents exploitation of a niche made available by the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon....Wikipedia.
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Although the bird is quite similar to a Collared Dove, I don't believe that it is one, but rather a Barbary Dove. Note the white vent and the very pale wings and tail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Dove
http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/17480/wm/pd2295871.jpg
http://www.ozladym.com/pics/Birds/B...Streptopelia risoria) 1 - Wellington, NSW.jpg

Here's a Collared Dove for comparison:
http://www.tarsiger.com/images/hytpe/strdec_5.4.09.JPG

CAU said:

Although the bird is quite similar to a Collared Dove, I don't believe that it is one, but rather a Barbary Dove. Note the white vent and the very pale wings and tail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Dove
http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/17480/wm/pd2295871.jpg
http://www.ozladym.com/pics/Birds/B...Streptopelia risoria) 1 - Wellington, NSW.jpg

Here's a Collared Dove for comparison:
http://www.tarsiger.com/images/hytpe/strdec_5.4.09.JPG

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Apologies CaliforniaBirdGirl, cau has it spot on. Barbary dove.:t:

Thank you both!

I'm happy to have found this forum and will be coming here more often to learn as much as I can about birds. I love them, but am self professed to be "bird stupid" when it comes to identifying all but the most obvious species 3
How very cool to have a Barbary Dove inhabiting my yard. I think it is a female, and it is building a nest across the street, so hopefully I'll have some very pretty baby birds this fall to look forward to!
Since there is so much knowledge here...is there a difference between the Barbary, Ringneck and Collared Doves? My research seems to point to them all being different species but the same family...is this correct?

CaliforniaBirdGirl said:

Since there is so much knowledge here...is there a difference between the Barbary, Ringneck and Collared Doves? My research seems to point to them all being different species but the same family...is this correct?

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Barbary Dove and Ringneck Dove are synonyms for the domesticated form of African Collared Dove. Eurasian Collared Dove is a different species. The Wikipedia link in my previous post explains this further. Barbary Dove might hybridise with Eurasian Collared Dove.