Rock Dove
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Columba livia
Found around the coasts of Western Scotland, Ireland & North Africa in the wild.
Adults has dark bluish-grey head, neck, and chest feathers with glossy greenish to reddish-purple iridescence along its neck feathers.
The white lower back of the pure rock dove is its best identification characteristic; the two black bars on its pale grey wings are also distinctive.
The tail has a black band on the end, and the outer web of the tail feathers are margined with white.
The iris is red-brown.
The call is a dovecot coo than the phrase of the Wood Pigeon.