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submitted 1 week ago by rickdg@lemmy.world to c/birding@lemmy.world

A pigeon with blue-gray plumage and dark wingbars perches on a thin branch beside a tree trunk with a large knot hole, set against a blurred green woodland background.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

pidgin

I think that's not right

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

pigeon? idk

[-] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

That’s honestly a rare sighting for most of us I think.

[-] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Presumably a feral pigeon (with its ancestors tending to Rock Dove) - so city dwellers ought to be familiar with the general type. Being a mongrel, that particiular plumage is indeed rare or even unique!

But a well posed pigeon is good to photo :)

[-] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Sorry, due to lack of sleep I was halfway dazed yesterday. In my head, the forest-like location was what I meant as a rare sight.

[-] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, that makes a lot more sense - certainly in the UK in woodland I'd expect Wood Pigeons, not Feral.

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