Wild type blue modified with dilute is a very similar colour to brown. It also fades in sunlight. It's not seen much in feral flocks either but dilutes generally, aren't common either. It seems that feral flocks can only sustain a handful of the modifiers arising in domestication.
When I have seen brown amongst ferals they were always very scruffy, very poor condition.
No, rarely seen in feral flocks, doesn't seem to endure. Brown feathers "bleach" in the sunlight very quickly. I suspect this might mean that the integrity of the feather structure is compromised quite easily. Not a common colour in racing homer lofts either, probably for the same reason.
Clockwise from top left: Wild type blue bar, Ash red bar (Dominant sex-linked colour mutation), blue cheq pied, cheq is dominant to wild type bar at the pattern locus and blue bar grizzle, possibly pied too. Grizzle is a dominant autosomal modifier.
On the cusp of spring, they'll be excited.
This is an Ash red Chequer. The basic colour gene has mutated twice, this is the dominant mutation. The chequer pattern is the mutated version of the bar pattern or wild type, this gene has mutated at least twice, maybe three times.
Intentional or accidental?
Which variety? Is she a Brunner?
Also micro plastics though. People with dementia have 10x as much micro plastic in their brain as people without. Average person has, like a spoon, they have like a full set of plastic cutlery: knife, fork, spoon, teaspoon, in their brain.
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White Marchenero in flight, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky
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Yes, you will often find white flights associated with depigmentation of other parts of the plumage. She also has depigmented toenails and I think her eye might be slightly depigmented too.
Beautiful! I know that view. I lived over there for many years, in the Rhins. Sort of reminded me of this, possibly inspired by the view from a similar location, maybe more over at the Isle of Whithorn.
Can you see if it has feathered feet? Looks a lot like a Hungarian house pigeon and likely an escapee from a domestic loft. May have an identity ring too, making it possible to trace the owner.
May also be one of the Trumpeter varieties. I would need a proper look at it but it is a pigeon, a domestic pigeon.
It is a pigeon, a black mottle. I can't see it's feet, but if it has feathered "boots" then it is likely a Hungarian House pigeon or a derived cross.
I had one years ago, not white like this, he was dilute blue, bronze and powdery effect, nice pigeon. He would somersault all the time. Like this colour in the photo.
When they fly they do somersaults, just for fun.
It looks like a Turkish Takla Tumbler pigeon.
Video of the British Pigeon Show Society show in Murton, Yorkshire here: youtu.be/pMoOVk4JOto?...
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Valencian Figurita, black, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd.
Red and Yellow Frillbacks, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky
On saturday and sunday, 6th & 7th. One in California same weekend:
No, real. Brunner pouter.
It is real, a brunner pouter in the colour "Isabel".
So this is an actual breed, it's a Spanish pouter called the Marchenero. Without showing AI any images, someone gave it the written breed standard and asked it to generate an image from that, using the written standard as the prompt. Last photo shows what it came up with.
