Crossbred

Crossbred diamond dove usually refers to a Geopelia cuneata produced from different domestic color lines rather than to a formal breed. Diamond doves are tiny Australian doves with long tails, spotted wing coverts, and a colored eye ring that is often brightest in mature males. Captive birds may carry mutations such as silver, cinnamon, pied, white, albino, blond, orange, or dilute isabel, and a crossbred bird may show one visible color while carrying recessive traits from another line.

People keeping crossbred diamond doves should judge them first as healthy, well-socialized doves, not as predictable breeding stock. They do well in quiet pairs or small compatible aviaries with room for short flights, fine seed, greens, mineral grit or calcium, and sheltered nest sites. If breeding is planned, ask what the parents were and avoid representing offspring as a pure mutation line unless the inheritance is known. True interspecies hybrids are a separate matter and should be disclosed clearly.

Colors: Albino, Blond, Cinnamon, Isabel (Dilute), Normal Grey/Wild Type, Orange, Pied, Silver, White