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Unusual city rock pigeon colouration (1 Viewer)

Oruga

Oruga

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Met this fellow today. Have never seen such variation. Usual all brown erythritic pigeons are common in the area though.
 

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Aww what a cute bub! Interesting that there are quite a few of them like that. Must be advantageous to them in some way.

Thanks for sharing!
 
PigeonQueen said:
Aww what a cute bub! Interesting that there are quite a few of them like that. Must be advantageous to them in some way.

Thanks for sharing!
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Actually, city pigeons have so many colour variations because there is no pressure from raptors and the grey wild morph is not much more advantegous than the white or brown. However, I've never seen this exact colour and was surprised. The colour does look neet.
 
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