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Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Black-Backed Magpie
Chestnut Teal
Crested Pigeon
Domestic Pigeon
Eastern Rosella
Figbird
Galah
Little Corella
Noisy Miners
Rainbow Lorikeets
Grey Butcher Bird
Crested Pigeon
Ocyphaps
lophotes
DISTRIBUTION: Australia generally, except
areas with high rainfall in the far south-east, north-eastern Queensland, and
the Top End; also absent from Tasmania. Has expanded it's range considerably
since European settlement, and is apparently still doing so in some east coastal
areas.
NOTES: Also called Topknot pigeon and
Crested Bronzewing. In pairs, small parties of five or six; sometimes large
flocks, frequenting mainly inland districts. It's favourite haunts are
lightly-wooded savannah country, usually near waterways or dams. Sedentary,
common. It's flight is rapid and is marked by a metallic whistling of the wings;
on alighting, it tips it's tail in a highly characteristic manner. Food: seeds
of grasses and herbaceous plants
NEST:
A frail platform of twigs, usually placed in a bushy horizontal branch up to
seven or eight metres from the ground.
EGGS:
Two; white, Breeding-season: practically throughout the year, but chiefly during
spring and summer
references from What Bird is That?
Neville W. Cayley. 1931 revised by Terence Lyndsey. 1984
...Angus and Robertson, Sydney Australia
(left) Looking a bit pompous, two crested pigeons seem to hesitate to join a flock of aggressively feeding domestic pigeons.
(Below) They made up their minds, lowered their heads, and ran wildly through the domestic pigeons, pecking as fast as they could without falling over. As they arrived back in the clear they flew off as though being chased by something very nasty