Saw this bird at Regents Park in London about a month ago. Initially thought it was a stock dove because it didn’t really look like a wood pigeon or a rock dove to me, but having second thoughts after taking another look at my grainy iPhone video. In person, I really thought it matched the pictures of stock doves from the Merlin app, but was this just wishful thinking because I was excited to have a lifer? (I am from the US so I’d never seen a stock dove before!) For what it’s worth, it was…
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