Collared Doves Still at Ravenna

Dec. 28 Email:

Following up on Steve Minard’s message of 15 December (below), Adam Byrne and I stopped off in Ravenna this afternoon and found the Eurasian Collared-Doves that Steve had seen on the 15th.  Like Steve, we found them perched on a telephone pole in front of Ravenna Feed and Grain. 

Today there were six doves, not five.  Of those six, five were “pure” Eurasian Collared-Doves, with blackish primaries, dark gray under tail-coverts, and the correct pattern on the undersurface of the outermost tail feather (black on the outer web projecting farther toward the feather-tip than the black on the inner web).  The sixth also had blackish primaries and dark gray under tail-coverts, but it had only one tail feather, so we couldn’t tell if it had the correct tail pattern or not.

 

- Phil Chu