dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham) (09/07/90)
In article <1990Sep6.224033.10637@nmt.edu>, john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: > John Horvath (horvath@granite.cr.bull.com) writes: > +-- > | Speaking of misnomers, why do they call them rock doves too. > | I think this is a campaign by the pidgeon people to vindicate > | these creatures. I have never seen one of these things out > | in the wild unless they were flying from one urban blight to > | the next. Seriously, has anyone ever seen them in any habitat > | that resembled their typical concrete domiciles, something > | like canyon floors? > +-- > > The southern side of Pigeon Point, between Santa Cruz and > Half Moon Bay on the California coast, is made up of tall > rocky cliffs with flat tops. I have often seen groups of > twenty or so Rock Doves sitting on these cliff tops, far > from urban blight. > Here in Newfoundland we have a lot of this habitat as well, without the California weath~rwalas :-(, and there is a substantial colony of feral Rock Doves outside St. John's at a beautiful place called Middle Cove, where they can be found flying around the cliffs all year long. > John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu > ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber -- *************************************************************************** David Graham dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca ***************************************************************************