English and Scientific names:	Band-tailed Pigeon / Columba fasciata
Number of individuals:	One / Sex Unknown / Immature / Gray Plumage
Locality: LOUISIANA:	Lafayette
Specific Locality:	202 Toledo Drive; Lafayette, LA  70506
Date(s) when observed:	11/26/08
Time(s) of day when observed:	Late morning
Reporting observer and address:	Kim Martin Nehrbass; Lafayette, LA
Other observers accompanying reporter who also identified the bird(s):	Andre Billeaud
Other observers who independently identified the bird(s)	None
Light conditions (position of bird in relation to shade and to direction and amount of light):	Partly cloudy day.
Optical equipment:	None
Distance to bird(s):	20 feet
Duration of observation:	5 minutes
Habitat:	Mowed yard adjacent to a coulee.
Behavior of bird:	Feeding on ground under a hanging bird feeder with a mixed flock of mourning doves, white winged doves and Eurasian collared doves.
Description:	Yellow legs, Yellow bill with black bar near tip, gray plummage and slightly larger than a Eurasian collared dove that was feeding next to it.
Voice:	Didn't hear.
Similar species:	None.
Photographs or tape recordings obtained?	Cell phone camera taken by me. Photo did not come out very well.
Previous experience with this species:	None.
Identification aids:	None.
This description is written from:	Notes taken just after bird flew off.
Are you positive of your identification? If not, explain:	As close as I can be.  I have never seen another dove or pigeon with yellow legs and a yellow bill with a black bar on it.
Reporter:	Kim Martin Nehrbass
Date and time:	4/30/09 7:25 a.m.