Could it be a passenger pigeon???

[brancsikia339]

Last january, while waiting for my school bus, I saw a group of interesting looking pigeons in a tree. I knew a lot about extinct birds, and to me it looked like a passenger pigeon. Many sightings have occured since their declared extinction in 1914, but none confirmed. I forgot about these photos until i was just scrolling through my camera. What do you think? Could they be back??

i am not positive about this id, i just wanted to hear what you guys think they may be

Group in the tree

Individual pics of 3 of them

female?

Male? wrong date

Unsure

 

[agent A]

Look like normal mourning doves to me

 

[brancsikia339]

Look like normal mourning doves to me

yeah that's what i thought until i saw the red breast on the male along with the grey head. It looked different in person

 

[agent A]

yeah that's what i thought until i saw the red breast on the male along with the grey head. It looked different in person

Old male with a bloodied chest???

 

[brancsikia339]

could be

 

[Plex]

I also think they're mourning doves, and from what I can tell the tail isn't elongated enough to be a passenger pigeon. Not sure what would have caused the reddish breast on the mourning dove though; as Agent A said, it could have been an older male with a bloodied breast.

 

[sinensispsyched]

Yeah, mourning dove.

 

[brancsikia339]

the reason i posted the pics is because they look nearly identical to these pictures of passenger pigeons from the early 1900s, late 1800s. Here are some from google

 

[patrickfraser]

OMG! It is a passenger pigeon. Amazing photos. Your photos look like doves to me. Pigeons have thicker beaks and I consider them flying rats. The only good pigeon is a dead one. :lol:

 

[brancsikia339]

OMG! It is a passenger pigeon. Amazing photos. Your photos look like doves to me. Pigeons have thicker beaks and I consider them flying rats. The only good pigeon is a dead one. :lol:

flying rats? lol