Here's the eBird rationale for making the change to Rock Pigeon: eBird news link <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/rock-pigeon/>
"Feral" means "descended from domesticated stock", so it's not just the first generation, but also their descendants. Since all Rock Pigeons were originally introduced to the US as domesticated birds, those that are in the US now are descended from those birds and are considered feral. eBird says that everybody outside of a few places in Europe should list Feral Rock Pigeon, not Rock Pigeon. They say they're doing it so they can better monitor the "true" wild pigeon population. - Barry Gingrich Broomfield County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/6ba7fa02-e17f-44cb-8d5c-fc5640b42559%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
