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Columbina inca
This guy looks a lot fluffier in person than the picture conveys. He is a grayish brown with a much lighter breast. I love the dark edges of the feathers that make such a unique beautiful pattern.
He hung out on the ground for a long time eating the seeds we scatter.
I originally thought that he looked like my dove that I saw the other day and thought he may be a version of, but then his beak is longer and comes to more of a point. So I don't know what he is other than fat and fluffy.
Spotted on Feb 21, 2012
Submitted on Feb 21, 2012
6 Comments
David, I have lived in a beautiful wooded country area for 6 yrs now and never looked at the birds. My girls wanted to put a feeder out and now that we have we have gotten so many birds in our yard! I never thought I would be searching to the ends of the internet trying to identify birds or sneaking to my window to try and photograph them. All these birds I have posted have been seen for the first time in the last 2-3 weeks, it's been a lot of fun.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/5033...
You might want to add this sighting to the Birds of the World Mission.
I've never seen one in person, but I've been going through my field guides. I remembered this one because of the name.
David, thank you! I was at least right in the category. I seem to be getting better at this. Seema, I saw a mourning dove for the first time last week and he reminded me of this guy.
Some kind of dove..apart from the starkly different plumage, contour is much like mourning dove
Inca Dove
Columbina inca
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/inca_...