dark-eyed feral pigeon/rock dove?

["Philip Veerman" <>]

I for one don't think I have ever noticed eye colours of pigeons. But this species has been selectively bred into such a wide variety of colours and shapes, some variety of eye colour would hardly be surprising. It may well be just a one or two gene difference to give a different eye colour. Brown / not brown is a one gene feature in humans.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: John Brown [ Sent: Saturday, 20 July 2013 6:10 PM      To: COG_Mailing_List       Subject: [canberrabirds] dark-eyed feral pigeon/rock dove?

 

I took this bird amongst feral pigeons as a white feral pigeon. However, all of the feral pigeons of various plumages had the standard orange eye, whereas this bird (and another identical clearly has a dark eye.

 

 

Is there anything else it could be, or has it been crossed with something else?

 

John

 

 

 

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John Brown