<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Having our yard visited New Year's Day by a Collared-Dove with lots of bright white on the underside from the legs back, I've dipped into distinguishing between African and Eurasian Collared-Doves. In a nutshell, it seems the completely white outer webs of the outermost tail feathers is key. So far I've found one helpful article with illustrations and photos and discussion:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2018/11/01/why-are-so-many-eurasian-collared-doves-leucistic/comment-page-1/">https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2018/11/01/why-are-so-many-eurasian-collared-doves-leucistic/comment-page-1/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I hope to get good photographs of our latest special visitor one of these days. Weather and the skittishness of the collared-doves has prevented that so far.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Carefully observing doves in our yard and looking at individual feathers of birds have provided me with enjoyment for years, and have paid off with the bonus of finding two rarities and one federally banded Mourning Dove at our feeders.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I know of an accepted record, with photos, of an African Collared-Dove by several duly respected power birders at Neah Bay.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail-Observation-species" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><h3 id="gmail-afcdov1-heading" class="gmail-Heading gmail-Heading--h5 gmail-u-margin-none" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33);line-height:1.4205;font-size:0.88rem;letter-spacing:0.005rem;display:flex"><span class="gmail-Heading-main" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-right:0.5em">African Collared-Dove (Domestic type or Ringed Turtle-Dove)</span><span class="gmail-Heading-sub gmail-Heading-sub--inline gmail-Heading-sub--sci" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(106,106,106);display:inline;font-style:italic;margin-top:1px;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1">Streptopelia roseogrisea (Domestic type)</span></h3></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S45086865">https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S45086865</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I've not looked into whether there are other reports.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Good Birding,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/">https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Kevin Lucas</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Yakima County, WA</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div></div>