DOVES
THE pied mutation in the Barbary dove has occurred several times in the 20th century, all in America. First recorded in 1902, it was documented again in 1947. Then 10 years later, in 1957, it appeared almost simultaneously in Phoenix, Arizona, and Baldwin Park, California. In the early 1980s, the mutation was imported from America to the Netherlands and it is now commonly present in most parts of the world. The current pied doves are all descendants of the 1957 birds.
