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Rock Dove

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the rock dove.

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Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Rock Dove. The birds that Woody Allen once described as "rats with wings" are for many the bane of urban life. Feral pigeons, as domesticated rock doves are known, live closely alongside us. But the same species has, over millennia, been cosseted by pigeon fanciers, used to deliver wartime messages and been housed in dovecotes.

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Thu 27 Oct 2022 05:58

Rock Dove (Columba livia)

Image courtesy of Roger Wilmshurst (rspb-images.com)

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  • Tue 15 Oct 2013 05:58
  • Tue 16 Jun 2015 05:58
  • Thu 22 Dec 2016 05:58
  • Sun 27 Sep 2020 08:58
  • Thu 27 Oct 2022 05:58

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