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	All About Birds: Band-tailed Pigeon
		The Band-tailed Pigeon is found in two distinct regions in the American West, as well as throughout Central and South America.
		Tail dark gray at base, light gray across the tip.
		One Band-tailed Pigeon banded in Oregon was shot a year later in Florida, well outside the normal range.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Band-tailed_Pigeon.html (177 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Band-tailed Pigeon, Columba (or Patagioenas) fasciata, is a medium-sized bird of the Americas.
		It is the biggest pigeon in North America, averaging 34 to 36 cm (14–15 in) long and weighing 250–450 g.
		The distal half of the tail is also pale (except in the subspecies of Baja California), whence the English name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Band-tailed_Pigeon (334 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba linnaeus) \| Bandtails \|--hunting, habitat, and behavior \| hunting Bandtailed Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Band-tailed pigeons are migratory in the truest sense, and as such, come under the auspices of the federal Migratory Gamebird Act of 1918.
		Pigeons nest as far north as British Columbia and with the southern fall migration afford hunters in Oregon and California the chance to participate in this hunt, with California having the largest hunting harvest.
		Pigeons are by nature very opportunistic feeders and will utilize domestic fruits, notably cherries, a multitude of wild berries, farm crops such as oats, barley and wheat.
	www.gamebird-alliance.org /bandtail.html (759 words)

	Band-tailed Dove, or Pigeon
		Tail of moderate length, rounded, of twelve broad abruptly rounded feathers, of which the lateral is half an inch shorter than the longest.
		Tail greyish-blue at the base, much paler and tinged with yellow toward the end, these colours being separated at the distance of two inches from the tip by a band of fl.
		Length to end of tail 16 inches, to end of wings 13 3/4; wing from flexure 9; tail 6 1/4; bill along the ridge 10/12, along the edge of lower mandible 1 1/12; tarsus 1 1/12; hind toe 8/12, its claw (5 1/2)/12; middle toe 1 (4 1/2)/12, its claw 7/12.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F29_G1a.html (1006 words)

	ADW: Columba fasciata: Information
		The Band-tailed Pigeon is found in the forests or coastal woodlands of Western British Colombia and America.
		Pigeons and doves also produce food for their young that is unique from other types of birds.
		"Pigeon's Milk" is a milky substance produced in the birds crop (food-storage pouch which is the first stage in the birds digestive tract).
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Columba_fasciata.html (923 words)

	Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to the HIP registration, pigeon hunters are required to obtain a free permit prior to hunting bandtails.
		Pigeon hunters who take birds are encouraged to clip and save a wing from each bird.
		Wings from pigeons help biologists determine sex and age structures as well as reproductive successes in the Four-corners population of band-tailed pigeons.
	www.wildlife.utah.gov /news/03-08/dove_pigeon.html (975 words)

	BAND-TAILED PIGEON (Columba fasciata)
		In Arizona, the interior race of the Band-tailed Pigeon Columba fasciata fasciata is a fairly common summer resident in mountains from northwestern to southeastern Arizona.
		Habitat Requirements: Band-tailed Pigeons nest in forested areas and feed primarily in oak forest and meadows primarily on acorns and berry crops such as manzanita, madrone and elderberry.
		Western populations of Band-tailed Pigeons have declined over the past 30 years but trends of the interior populations are not well understood (Tacha 1994).
	www.mirror-pole.com /apif_web/pineoak/pineoak2.htm (670 words)

	Upland Game Birds
		Pigeons generally nest in the top of trees except that some are also using rocky cliffs in eastern Oregon.
		Adult pigeons produce "pigeon milk" in their crops which is a nutrient and mineral rich food that is fed to their young.
		The male and female are both a light brown color and have a narrow pointed tail as contrasted to the square tail of the band tail.
	www.dfw.state.or.us /ODFWhtml/springfield/upland.html (2727 words)

	Pigeons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The city pigeon, known by some as the Rock Dove, was brought over by European settlers in the early sixteen hundreds.
		Pigeons feed primarily on seed, grain, garbage, greens and insects.
		If pigeons are investigating a recessed area under your eaves, apply scare tactics or screening immediately, before they decide to stay and nest.
	intothewild.tripod.com /pigeons.htm (522 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon - Whatbird.com
		Band-tailed Pigeon: Large dove with small, purple-gray head and a broad neck with distinctive, thin white band on nape.
		Tail is pale gray with dark band at base.
		The parasitic louse Columbicola extinctus, believed to have become extinct with the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, was recently rediscovered on the Band-tailed Pigeon.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/161/_/Band-tailed_Pigeon.aspx (929 words)

	Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
		The band-tailed pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata, is also known as the wild pigeon, the white-collared pigeon, and the blue pigeon.
		The upper tail is dark gray with a wide, pale gray terminal band.
		The band-tailed pigeon is a native bird whose typical habitat is coniferous forests.
	dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov /rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=colufasc (298 words)

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		He was a Band-tailed Pigeon, and as such he was much less comfortable in close proximity to humans than his city relative, the Rock Pigeon.
		Band-tailed Pigeons are not uncommon, but they are much less commonly seen than Rock Pigeons due to their very different habits.
		Pigeon 04-0755 was likely anxious to return to his arboreal ways, but as he stood on the edge of the open transport carrier, he was too preoccupied with keeping an eye on me to notice the forest laid out before him.
	www.paws.org /about/emailnetwork/archive/wildagain/wild_2004_06_16.html (819 words)

	The Dove Page
		The tail is a bluish-gray with a fl band across it.
		The Band-tailed pigeon is indigigenious to mountainous areas of western North America.From British Columbia, Canada to western North Dakota and as far south as northern Argentina.
		The young Band-tailed pigeon will be somewhat tolerant of humans.Hand raised young are not neecessarily tame.These pigeons have a tendency to revert to their wild nature.If too much human contact is proved to a young Band-tailed pigeon it may imprint with humans and not be of any breeding value.Domestic homing pigeons make suitable foster parents.
	www.dovepage.com /articles/BandTailed-Brancato.html (880 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon - Discover The Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rest of this pigeon’s body is a dark gray, with the underside and tail being somewhat lighter and a broad, pale gray band, from which the bird gets its name, cutting across the end of the tail.
		This pigeon, which is native to the United States, chooses oak and coniferous forests and open cultivated fields, waste grain areas and livestock feeding areas to establish a home.
		The interior band-tailed pigeon is known as Columba fasciata fasciata and the coastal band-tailed pigeon as Columba fasciata monilis.
	www.dto.com /hunting/species/generalprofile.jsp?speciesid=15 (406 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Band-tailed Pigeon
		This large handsome pigeon inhabits the coastal woodlands of the Pacific coast and the mountains of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
		North America's largest pigeon, it is distinguished not only by its large size but by a pale gray bicolored underwing, yellow legs, a white crescent bordering a distinct patch of iridescent greenish-bronze feathers on the hindneck (adult), bill yellow with fl tip, and a wide, gray tail band.
		The Band-tailed Pigeon is an inhabitant of woodlands.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=22 (961 words)

	Colorado Partners in Flight
		Detailed information on the preferred habitat of the birds inhabiting Colorado is lacking, hampering conservation efforts and precluding formulation of management recommendations as related to timber harvest and prescribed burns.
		Band-tailed Pigeons are not adequately monitored by the BBS within Physiographic Area 87, and the data collected during 1966-1996 are too sparse for meaningful analysis of trends.
		Band-tailed Pigeons were present on an average of 4.15% (SE = 2.08) of the BBS routes run in Physiographic Area 87 in Colorado, 1988-1997, at an average abundance of 0.11 (SE = 0.06) individuals per route.
	www.rmbo.org /pif/bcp/phy87/ppine/btpi.htm (406 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In autumn, adults can be differentiated from their young by the adult’s chrome-yellow bills and feet, white crescent at the nape of the neck, and the dark gray band across the top of the tail that gives the bird its name.
		After the season was closed in 1951 for a perceived lack of birds, interest in band-tailed pigeons waned until a study was initiated in the “four-corner” states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah in the 1960s.
		The numbers of both pigeons and pigeon hunters has since fallen off with only 146 bandtails reportedly taken in 1996.
	www.gf.state.az.us /h_f/game_bandtailed_pigeon.shtml (372 words)

	WDFW NEWS RELEASE: Volunteers sought for band-tailed pigeon survey
		Volunteers will be asked to keep track of how many wild pigeons they see in their yards during the spring and summer.
		Band-tailed pigeon populations have declined in western Washington during the past 20 years, but recently have increased in numbers.
		Unlike the common rock dove or "city pigeon," band-tailed pigeons tend to live in forests and nest in evergreen trees.
	wdfw.wa.gov /do/apr98/apr2298b.htm (251 words)

	Birding Column: Enigma of the Band-Tailed Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Incredibly, it is legal today to hunt the band-tailed pigeon in six states (California, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah), as well as in Mexico and Central and South America.
		Therefore, it is not surprising that the band-tailed pigeon appears on the Audubon WatchList, which identifies bird species whose populations are declining and/or face threats to their breeding and wintering grounds.
		The band-tailed pigeon is usually skittish, but this individual was so used to the author that he posed just a few feet away.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/08/0831_040831_birdman_pigeon_2.html (572 words)

	ESPN.com - Find water for dove; pines hold pigeons
		The pigeon season coincides with the dove season — from Sept. 130.
		The band-tailed pigeons also have a namesake crescent-shaped band of white around the napes of their necks.
		Band-tailed pigeons are good-sized birds, more than twice the weight of doves and about the same size as their feral cousins.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1604060&type=story (1117 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Band-tailed Pigeon is found in the forests or coastal woodlands of Western British Columbia and America.
		Band-Tailed Pigeon: This bird lays one or two white eggs in a nest, which is a flimsy platform of sticks and twigs lined with pine needles placed in a fork or horizontal branch of a tree.
		Band-Tailed Pigeon: Similar is the Rock Pigeon, but never has a purplish head and neck with a scaly, green hind neck and white bar.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/161/target.aspx (705 words)

	Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mourning dove and band-tailed pigeon hunters are reminded that they must register in the federal Migratory Game Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) before going afield for these two migratory species.
		Locate areas that birds are feeding in and note their movements from feeding areas to mid-day roosting areas.
		In addition to their HIP registration, pigeon hunters are required to obtain a free permit prior to hunting bandtails.
	www.wildlife.utah.gov /news/02-08/mourningdove.html (1062 words)

	DFG News:Deadly Bird Disease Can Spread By Birdfeeders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Doves and pigeons are the two species most documented with the infection because of their gregarious habits, and their feeding of young with crop milk, noted Gonzales.
		Most often, however, dead doves and pigeons are found because they tend to die in the open, whereas other bird species seek cover just prior to their death.
		The band-tailed pigeon, distinguishable by its yellow legs, yellow bill, and long banded tail, is the only native and the largest pigeon in North America.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /news/news04/04060.html (1213 words)

	Band-tailed Pigeon Hunting in Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In autumn, adults can be differentiated from their young by the adult's chrome-yellow bills and feet, white crescent at the nape of the neck, and the dark gray band across the top of the tail that gives the bird its name.
		After the season was closed in 1951 for a perceived lack of birds, interest in band-tailed pigeons waned until a study was initiated in the "four-corner" states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah in the 1960s.
		The numbers of both pigeons and pigeon hunters has since fallen off with only 146 bandtails reportedly taken in 1996.
	www.azgfd.gov /h_f/game_bandtailed_pigeon.shtml (394 words)

	M.O.U. - Sightings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the early afternoon of August 24th, a Band-tailed Pigeon was observed at Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve in the city of Duluth, St. Louis County.
		The bird was initially seen by birders as it perched in a tree near the main overlook.
		Frank Nicoletti, the hawk counter at the ridge, identified the bird as a Band-tailed Pigeon and spread the word.
	www.cahlander.com /recent.html (341 words)

	Cool, wet weather may have affected dove surveys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dove and band-tailed pigeon hunters are reminded that they must register in the federal Migratory Game Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) prior to going afield for these migratory birds.
		Feral pigeons, also known as rock pigeons, have red legs and feet.
		Pigeons prefer foods that include pine buds, acorns, berries, seeds and some pine needles.
	www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/05/08/22a2a.asp (1303 words)

	No. AZ Audubon Forum - Birds and Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The flycatcher arrived today in our Overgaard yard, a whole month earlier than last year, and a male yellow-rumped warbler only stuck around long enough to take a bath.
		Ruby-crowned kinglet arrived a few days ago, and yesterday a typically skittish band-tailed pigeon came in, also a month earlier than last year.
		The two Lewis's woodpeckers have booted the northern flickers out of the 'hood and have commenced their dawn-to-dusk mating song and dance.
	nazas.org /sightings/viewthread.php?tid=234 (200 words)

	Band-Tailed Pigeon Season Opens in Southern Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The daily bag limit on band-tailed pigeons is two, with a maximum of two in possession.
		They look similar to the domestic pigeons commonly seen in cities and around farms, but band-tailed pigeons are found mainly in mountain and foothill forest regions.
		Also, while domestic pigeons can vary greatly in color, from white to dark gray or blue, band-tailed pigeons are consistently a light brownish-gray, with a broad tail band and a white crescent on the nape of the neck.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /news/news99/99105.html (236 words)

	New band tailed pigeon Resources
		Band-Tailed Pigeons: Wilderness Bird at Risk"A longtime hunter in the coastal range of Oregon takes stock of his favorite prey, the band-tailed pigeon," reported The New York Times in the summer of 2003.
		What made Worth Mathewson's writing about the western wilderness pigeon newsworthy is not his elegant evocation of the damp, spicy scent of a Pacific Northwest river valley or his keen observations of bandtails flying high and fast over a canyon.
		Ecology of band-tailed pigeons in Oregon (SuDoc I 49.89/2:92 (6))
	animals.informationinnovationonline.com /animals/band-tailed-pigeon.php (1100 words)

	Dove and waterfowl hunters are encouraged to register in HIP early this year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SALT LAKE CITY — Dove, band-tailed pigeon and sandhill crane hunters are reminded that they must register in the Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) before hunting this season.
		The dove and band-tailed pigeon hunt will be held in September.
		All dove, band-tailed pigeon, duck, goose, swan, coot, snipe and sandhill crane hunters, throughout the United States, are required to register in the HIP each year.
	www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/03/08/07c7.asp (519 words)

	The BirdWeb - Species Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The largest of Washington’s pigeons and doves, it is all gray, with a lighter gray, banded tail.
		After protection from over-hunting, Band-tailed Pigeons made a good comeback from low numbers earlier in the 20th century, although numbers have begun to drop again in recent decades, perhaps once again due to hunting pressure.
		Band-tailed Pigeons are commonly found year round in western Washington lowlands, city parks, and residential areas with large conifers.
	www.birdweb.org /birdweb/Species.asp?id=236 (761 words)

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