doves
bar-shouldered doves
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Bar-shouldered Doves are around 27-29cm. They are common in thick vegetation close to water and this pair was in scrub near a fresh water stream that ended in a tidal lake on a beach.
brown cuckoo-dove
These lovely doves are a beautiful rusty-brown with a long tail. They are very fond of wild tobacco where this one was feeding. They are common residents in the rainforests and woodlands but only along the edge of Australia’s eastern coast.
brown cuckoo-dove 2
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This capture shows the beautiful russet-brown feathers and part of the lovely long tale. These birds love the wild tobacco tree and seem to swallow the berries whole as in this past capture.
brown cuckoo-dove
This beautiful russet-brown bird is quite large, growing up to 43cm. It is a type of pigeon that has a long tail and a loud call. Its habitat is the rainforest and forest on the edge of Australia’s east coast from the top end (Cape York) down south to the Victorian border. This one is attracted by the wild tobacco plant of which they seem particularly fond.
rock dove
In keeping with the name this rock dove was living with a small flock on the rocky sandstone ledges around Dee Why Point on Sydney’s northern beaches.
rock dove
Australian Rock Doves, also known as Feral Pigeons, are descended from the Rock Pigeon, found in Europe and Asia. Many plumage variants have been developed by selective breeding over the years and the most common colours of feral birds are a mixture of grey, black, white and brown, with purple and green sheens (http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Columba-livia). I spotted this one in Sydney’s Botanical Gardens keeping an eye on the tourists admiring the lake.
brown cuckoo-dove swallowing a berry
Love this capture of the Brown Cuckoo-Dove as it is about to swallow the fruit of the wild tobacco tree – whole berry down that slim throat with one gulp.
brown cuckoo-dove
Brown-cuckoo Doves are forest pigeons and live in a thin coastal strip along the eastern sea-board of Australia. I have hardly seen them but this one came to feed on the wild tobacco plants near where I live, it kept to the inner branches making it difficult to capture. They seem shy but apparently can be quite noisy and make a hoarse ‘croarr’, this one was very quiet though and has not returned.
Acknowledgement: The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds 2nd ed.
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