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From: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Feral Rock Doves (was Re: Lost Homing Pigeon)
Message-ID: <132481@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 7 Sep 90 11:00:16 GMT
References: <2227@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1990Sep6.140149.18599@granite.cr.bull.com> <1990Sep6.224033.10637@nmt.edu>
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <1990Sep6.224033.10637@nmt.edu>, john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
> John Horvath (horvath@granite.cr.bull.com) writes:
> +--
> | Speaking of misnomers, why do they call them rock doves too.
> | I think this is a campaign by the pidgeon people to vindicate
> | these creatures.  I have never seen one of these things out
> | in the wild unless they were flying from one urban blight to
> | the next. Seriously, has anyone ever seen them in any habitat
> | that resembled their typical concrete domiciles, something
> | like canyon floors?
> +--
> 
> The southern side of Pigeon Point, between Santa Cruz and
> Half Moon Bay on the California coast, is made up of tall
> rocky cliffs with flat tops.  I have often seen groups of
> twenty or so Rock Doves sitting on these cliff tops, far
> from urban blight.
> 
Here in Newfoundland we have a lot of this habitat as well, without 
the California weath~rwalas :-(, and there is a substantial colony of 
feral Rock Doves outside St. John's at a beautiful place called Middle 
Cove, where they can be found flying around the cliffs all year long. 

> John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
> ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber
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   David Graham					dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca  
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