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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan-Paul Charteris" data-source="post: 1266178" data-attributes="member: 71800">According to this information it does happen (although I still agree with you that it would be rare and much less likely than soiling or an aberrant bird)...To quote from this website: "In response to the common query whether town pigeons can interbreed with Wood pigeons, male Common Pigeons (feral pigeon, Rock Dove) have produced fertile hybrids with female Wood Pigeons.Male Common Pigeons mated to female European Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) may produce infertile hybrids. However, hybridisation tests were made using the domesticated Ringneck (Ring) Dove (S risoria) which may be derived from either the European Collared Dove (S decaocto) or the African Collared Dove (S roseogrisea) and which interbreeds freely with both species of collared dove"The website is just one that came up when I googled, this being : <a href="http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-birds.htm" target="_blank">http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-birds.htm</a>Jan</blockquote>