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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fugl" data-source="post: 1266735" data-attributes="member: 816">Interesting thread.  Rock Pigeon hybrids also appear to be very rare in the New World.  The only record of hybridization between the Rock Pigeon and a native species that I've found in BNA online--a standard work on North American birds--was with a Band-tailed Pigeon in captivity.  Not surprising, I suppose, since neither Band-tails nor any of the other native pigeons are particularly closely related to Rock Pigeons.<a href="http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/530/articles/systematics" target="_blank">http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/530/articles/systematics</a></blockquote>