Help with this bird please :)

[gavin2k4]

Hopefully someone can help with this bird. It has been in our garden for about 4 days. It is tame and comes within one metre of you. It does not eat bread, which makes me think it's not wild. It is alone and does not respond to other pigeons. It does fly too!

If I can find out what type of pigeon it is, I can perhaps narrow my search as to where its meant to be.

[Lance Morgan]

Looks like a ferral pigeon to me. I can't see any rings in which case it could have been a lost racer.

[gavin2k4]

Well I did originally think that, but the beak looks a bit short and seems to have different eye colouration.

There are definitely no rings.

[Ollie]

Yes I would have said feral pigeon. The eye colour of some of them does vary considerably.

[googler]

Young Feral Pigeon or Stock Dove?

[gavin2k4]

Well it hasn't moved from the ledge under my roof since yesterday evening so I think I'm going to have to get it some proper food

[Pigeon feather]

This is a tumbler pigeon or high flyer by the looks of things, she was almost certainly born in captivity hence her inability to mix with the ferals, she should readily eat mixed corn/seed if you can buy her some, also make sure she has water available as she does look tired and in a need of a good drink, next step would be trying to locate the owner though she could have flown many miles to be where you are though this type is not known for doing this as readily as racers so the owner may be a few doors away! see if you can get in touch with someone that keeps fancy pigeons to take her off your hands or perhaps keep her yourself? either way she needs to return back to captivity as they don't do so well in the wild not recognising bread as food as the more robust ferals do, good luck with her and keep us informed.

[gavin2k4]

Originally Posted by Pigeon feather

This is a tumbler pigeon or high flyer by the looks of things, she was almost certainly born in captivity hence her inability to mix with the ferals, she should readily eat mixed corn/seed if you can buy her some, also make sure she has water available as she does look tired and in a need of a good drink, next step would be trying to locate the owner though she could have flown many miles to be where you are though this type is not known for doing this as readily as racers so the owner may be a few doors away! see if you can get in touch with someone that keeps fancy pigeons to take her off your hands or perhaps keep her yourself? either way she needs to return back to captivity as they don't do so well in the wild not recognising bread as food as the more robust ferals do, good luck with her and keep us informed.

Thanks for that. It's definitely what you say as there is an identical bird on google images. The bloody thing has flown off now though. A whole 12 hours stuck on our roof and as soon as we get it some food, it flies.