This picture is actually a bad example of what I am talking about, probably because i took it as these where basically the only dark pigmented Rock Doves I saw in Honolulu.
Explanation: Either the ancestral Rock Dove invaders were randomly white, or there is an evolutionary advantage to having more white than dark grey feathers. Why do we wear white on sunny days and not black? It keeps us (and possibly Rock Doves alike) from overheating.
Sounds like a paper for "The Journal of the Ecologically Obvious," I know, but this is evolution in real time!


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