Updated April 23
Now cooing to a city near you: White-winged dove spotted in Gardiner
The dove, with a distinctive white band on its wings and ring of blue around its eyes, is drawing birders to Gardiner for a rare spring sighting.
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A white-winged dove is seen recently in Gardiner. The bird is native to the Southwest, Mexico and Central America.
Photo courtesy of Jeff Wells
GARDINER It takes an educated ear to hear the song of a single bird and realize it’s out of the ordinary.
“It actually woke us up,” Jeff Wells said. “I don’t know if anybody but a birder would wake up because it was a sound that was an unfamiliar dove, a dove that wasn’t a normal dove a mourning dove or a pigeon that kind of startled us awake.”