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Please help ID this bird for me

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  • 10-01-2011 5:29pm
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    bbam
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    Hi all, first time posting here in Nature & Bird watching..

    This bird landed at our house and stayed round for a few days, it wouldn't eat that I saw but it did take a drink I put out..

    I'm presuming it is a Pidgeon of some sort but would like to know for sure as we've never seen anything like it before... It wasn't ringed but seemed very tame, I reckon I could have lifted it but didn't as that would just stress it.

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    Judgement Day
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    Looks like a "flying rat" to me i.e. a feral pigeon but maybe it actually has a breed.


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    homerhop
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    Racing pigeon.


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    John_Rambo
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    I think it's a fantail pigeon. People collect them and show them.


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    Wild_Dogger
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    He a lovely guy ! I always loved the pigeons .........
    get some seed on board


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    LostCovey
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    homerhop wrote: »
    Racing pigeon.

    No, it's a feral pigeon. Racing pigeons are ringed.

    LC


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    marlin vs
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    Looks similar to a fan-tail.


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    bbam
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    He went off after hanging round for a few days, he flew off in an odd horizontal spiral pattern up the valley..

    I live only a mile from a set of wind turbines and wonder if he had a close one and got a bit disorientated..


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    DipperDan
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    bbam wrote: »
    He went off after hanging round for a few days, he flew off in an odd horizontal spiral pattern up the valley..

    I live only a mile from a set of wind turbines and wonder if he had a close one and got a bit disorientated..

    Might be a Tumbler Pigeon. I have never seen one. They have very varied plumage, but some have very short bills like this bird.

    See
    http://www.pigeonweb.net/tumbler-pigeon


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    Everett
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    Thumbler or Bermingham roller.
    E


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