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Rock Pigeon

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Habitat:

our garden in Pretoria

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Barbara Schroeter
thanks, for the link and your suggestion. yes SA is beautiful and we have a lot of nice birden in our garden.
Gordon Dietzman
Common names can sometimes be misleading; I've tripped up on that a couple of times in the last couple of weeks. I'd suggest that this is a speckled pigeon (Columba guinea) and not a rock pigeon (Columba livia). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_Pigeon for more information. Nice sighting and very nice photo! You live in a part of the world that someday I'd like to visit.
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PublishedMay 18, 2011

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