Pigeons and Doves

The pigeons and doves are very shy and take fright easily. They love food and the barshouldered and turtledoves will graze all day. The Whiteheaded Pigeons are magnificent, they are quite big and have amazing colours, they back of the wings have a flourescent sheen, red around the eyes and a flourescent pink and yellow on the beak. The juveniles have a narrower head with a slight line through the eye and are not pure white on the breast. They usually come a few times a day and up to six birds. They do disappear for periods of time but they always come back. They also make a very soothing deep cooing noise. The Wonga Pigeon, and we've only had one, stayed for about a month and then disappeared, much to my disappointment. It was so big and fat and waddled around the backyard shooing the other doves away from the seed tray. The Wonga Pigeon has just returned to the backyard a year later, given a week or so, how amazing is that, it remembers my backyard as a great place to come and hang out and have a bit of a rest. I've also had a Brown Cuckoo-dove a few times in tree and once there were two of them. Their tail is very beautiful, very long and each feather has a lighter edge to it, when they fan it out it's spectacular.

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* 7. Crested

* 8. Wonga

* 9. Turtle-dove

* 10. Bar-shouldered Dove

* 12. White-headed Pigeon

* 13. White-headed

* 14. Wonga

* 15. White-headed

* 17. White-headed (juv)

* 18. Wonga

* 19. White-headed

* 20. White-headed (juv)

* 22. Wonga

23. Emerald Dove

24. Rock Dove

* 25. White-headed (male & juv)

* 27. White-headed

* 28. Brown Cuckoo-dove

29. Bar-shouldered Dove

* 30. White-headed