So... I have a rock dove now. Meet Squabble.

[MageofMist]

More bonding.

 

[biophiliac]

My day is incomplete without my Squabble update! True and funny at the same time. Best wishes to you both.

 

[biophiliac]

Is he a self black? Or a very dark checkered? =o

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I'd call him a T check, a dark one with maybe some smokey or dirty factor included. If he was a spread black you wouldn't see his tail band. I like his look - I have a feral hen that same color/pattern.

 

[MageofMist]

My day is incomplete without my Squabble update! True and funny at the same time. Best wishes to you both.

Gradually getting Squabble to sleep in the crate, he is far from impressed about it. He is sweet as can be, as I can lift him up and give him smooches... Until bedtime approaches, then he turns wild and takes multiple laps around the bedroom to catch and put in the crate.

He is back to being a sweetheart in the morning afterwards, as if nothing happened, so I think it is more of a tantrum than a fear thing.

I'd call him a T check, a dark one with maybe some smokey or dirty factor included. If he was a spread black you wouldn't see his tail band. I like his look - I have a feral hen that same color/pattern.

I see some banding though on the wings, though faint, which T-checks lack, and sooty causes a checkered-like effect on the wings... Though on particularly smoky birds, it looks like they have a band when they are a check or T-check. There are also incomplete spreads where the tail band and markings still show whilst the body is darkened, usually considered a flaw, but I love the look.
He also cannot be a dirty as his feet are red with no blotches and his squab beak was all pink, only just turning black with age, whilst dirty modified birds are born with a black beak, legs and skin and often have black blotches on their legs as they age and they turn pink. Also looking at a dirty blue compared to a default blue (dunno how else to put it ), they are only a shade or two darker.

So, potentially a incomplete spread check/T-check? Or even a heavily smoky bandless? The Andalusian/Indigo modifier also results in a similar dark blue hue, but without the sooty/smoky-look Squabble has.

 

[MageofMist]

Could even be a blue + banded or T-check + smoky + sooty

Edit: Looked up more, defo a blue smoky + sooty combo at the least, with the bar marking. The feather blotches don’t match up with a check or T-check bird and more so as a sooty’s flecks.

Blue, well, it is the base colour.
Barred is the pattern, creating the wing bars on the wing shield.
Smoky causes the body to be darkened, the bars to be larger and more blurred, and to have pale eye circe, skin and beaks.
Sooty causes flicks of dark pigmentation to show on the wings in a very similar way to T-check, but without the light outlines and veins.

There are likely other modifiers as well.

 

[MageofMist]

Buttering Squabble up...

And now, for the “What the heck are you doing?” As I try and take a wing pic...

Is it just me, or are pigeons just one of the sweetest and most tolerant birds?

 

[MageofMist]

Squabble and Lulu, BFF’s.
Was worried about Lulu’s skittishness rubbing off on Squabble, but it seems to be the opposite. Lulu was much bolder and more comfortable around me, guess he thought the megadove as some kind of protective guardian?

Glad they get along when out the cages, and was surprised that Squabble took Lulu invading the crate as well as he/she did.

 

[MageofMist]

... Lulu, you are too small to live with Squabble, I am sorry, I know you are both BFF’s but ya gotta stay in your own cages.

 

[MageofMist]

Squabble is a dimbat.
He knocked over some DVD’s and thought he was in trouble when I came up to see what the noise was... He wouldn’t even fly to me for food in my hand.

So I got the chicken chicks out to cuddle with and Squabble instantly flew over and started making quiet baby pigeon noises at me. Squabble gets jealous when I give attention to other animals and wants to be fussed as well, and seems to value such pettings even higher than food!

 

[biophiliac]

Squabble is a dimbat.
He knocked over some DVD’s and thought he was in trouble when I came up to see what the noise was... He wouldn’t even fly to me for food in my hand.

So I got the chicken chicks out to cuddle with and Squabble instantly flew over and started making quiet baby pigeon noises at me. Squabble gets jealous when I give attention to other animals and wants to be fussed as well, and seems to value such pettings even higher than food!

My experience - pigeons are as individual as humans. You hit the lottery with Squabble, or as you suggest he probably trapped you with the 'fluffed feather' con! Lol