I"m assuming this is a mourning dove, but this chest color is really throwing me.
CLOSED: Dove
Experts will let you know, but here in Central Florida that's the way Mourning Doves chests' look when they fluff up for some reason. Then they go light again after they settle down.
hmm. interesting. I just checked my photos and I have some puffed up light colored and some like this. ThanksFran!
That long tail is exclusive to the Mourning Dove.
Well i was pretty sure it was a mourning dove, just couldn't figure out the coloration. I hadn't remembered them looking so chestnutty.
thanks
Has to be a leucistic Mourning Dove. There are other dove species around the world with long tails and which might escape from a zoo, but none with that plumage pattern.
Resin
Oh yah, look at the one to the left. not as much white underneath. I should have thought of that, Resin.
Maybe its an Oregon form Dove. lol j/k