[EBB Sightings] Tilden hummer dive-bombing bluebird, and "albino" ??band-tailed pigeon??

debbie viess wrote:

> Odds are that your white bird was an escaped or lost
> domestic pigeon. Several folks in the Bay Area release
> white doves; they are more rock dove size than
> mourning dove size. A white BtPi is certainly
> possible, tho.

There's also a strain of domestic pigeon we called "White Kings" when I 
was a kid, raising 'em with the boys across the street. They're huge 
compared to the regular rock pigeon - maybe 30% bigger or so. You can 
see some samples in the globe cage at Lake Merritt.

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