Okay, so I was in Barcelona last week at Parc Güell around 8:00 in the morning. I was watching these pigeons fly overhead, and spotted this brightly colored variation of a pigeon (I’m guessing) chase a pigeon around for the better part of 2 minutes, until they both ducked into a large tree. Any thoughts?
P.S. Don’t know how you birders do it…I nearly broke my neck chasing these birds around in the air with a 70-200 lens on my 5D. So let me apologize for the blurry image, as I was there shoot landscapes.
Okay so in watching this bird chase the pigeon around, its size is comparable, same proportions heavy body, short blunt wings like a pigeon, just slightly larger, could be a male? I am only guessing here.
Thank you for the insights…keep them coming, as I am trying to identify this bird for my 5 year old who keeps asking, damn he is persistent.
It's too bad you didn't get it on the ground or sitting somewhere......
Body & wings in flight makes me think of Amazon parrots, but I know there is none colored that way (unless undiscovered) it could be a morph & size would be slightly larger than a pigeon. Body shape in flight would be close, but not on a branch.....
I've not ever seen a pigeon with those colors though & a 5 year old will be just that - - persistent.
Wow what kind of bird is that? Its kind of hard to make it out since it is so blurry. But I wonder if that is a native bird that is a rare species? Thanks for sharing.
Looks to me like someone tie-dyed a dove....The right wing is red/orange and the left wing is mostly yellow, which points towards human intervention. OTOH I could be entirely wrong
Personally, I agree with M Vers - it certainly looks like somebody has dyed the bird. If you look at the colouring on the wings, it is different on each side. The bird's left wing is predominantly red, whilst the right wing has no red. I cannot think of any other species of bird with "unequal" plumage?
It also looks very like a pigeon in size, wing span etc. If this is the case - and someone has deliberately dyed the bird - I can't see it lasting very long in the wild looking like that
I can tell you right now that its definitely NOT a rosella, the tail itself is a very good indication of this. The body shape, broad wings and tail in the first image and the shape of the head/beak in the second image also steers clear from the idea that it is any type of parrot. It is most likely a dove/pigeon that has been dyed. Perhaps for a tourist attraction...or possibly someone got a little too bored. People do strange things, there is proof of this everywhere you turn these days. In the end it is almost impossible (by my standards) to designate what species of bird this is, unless there are more clear images out there or unless someone comes forward with a logical answer. I'm sticking to the tie-dye theory for now
