> On 18 June 2019 at 07:33 John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > On 6/16/2019 14:14:31, mike wilson wrote: > >> On 16 June 2019 at 18:56 John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 6/16/2019 13:37:47, Larry Colen wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> John wrote on 6/16/19 10:33 AM: > >>>> It's not a pigeon, and both of them look like cardboard cutouts. > >>> > >>> If not a pigeon, what is it? > >>> > >> > >> Looks like a Eurasian Collared-Dove. They're an invasive species in Texas > >> & the > >> Southeastern U.S., although they have been spotted as far west as Oregon. > >> > >> https://www.texasinvasives.org/animal_database/detail.php?symbol=22 > >> > >> Pigeons (what we call pigeons here in the U.S.) are doves, but not all > >> doves are > >> pigeons. > >> > > It (the species) invaded the UK in the early 50s. By 1972 it was where I > > lived halfway up England, at which point I moved 200 miles north. It took > > until the mid 1990s to reach me and it is ubiquitous now. I saw them in > > Edinburgh, 150 miles north, earlier this year so the spread appears to be > > slowing. The damned things never shut up. > > The Eurasian Collared-Dove? or the Rock-Dove that we call pigeons here in the > U.S.? ... I don't remember if Rock-Doves are native to the U.S. or not, but I > thought they were native in the U.K. >
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