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Columba livia, or the common pigeon.

I imagine this is not the usual angle people are used to seeing pigeons; rather, you probably picture them from above, staring up at you from sidewalk level, begging for a piece of whatever it is your eating, in the dingy second-hand light found at the concrete bottom of your urban canyon.

In this light their iridescent neck feathers are quite striking.

Canon R10, f/14, 1/640sec, ISO-500, the full 400mm using the Bird Lens.

Bonus picture:

Dafuq you lookin' at?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Always surprised by how colorful birds can be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Irridescence is good!

Are you at all confident these are pure Rock Doves, rather than a particularly smart pair of feral pigeons?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No, because these days it's probably safe to assume that the entire wild population has at least some genes from feral/domesticated pigeons by now.