Here are a few links to pix of juvenile Mourning Doves. Particularly in
the last one, you can see the black edging on the feathers that
instantly rule out Inca Dove.
http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UEWebApp/images/ALE_071002_00281D_S.jp
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http://static.flickr.com/53/168248566_8017c5fd6d.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimbrava/168248565/
Tyler Bell
California, MD
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> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] INCA DOVE?!
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> Last year I had a similar dove in my yard in Cheverly, but I thought
it
> was a
> juv. Mourning Dove. I'll be more alert and have the camera ready to
go.
>
> Denise Ryan
> Cheverly, MD |