Fruit doves extension of range

[Penny Drake-Brockman <>]

Dear all

Forgot to mention earlier this interesting observation - driving into
Sydney along  South Dowling Street past Moore Park, just at the traffic
lights before one enters the maze of streets leading to Oxford St and
Taylor Square, on the left in the very narrow front yard of a terrace
house, in what I took to be a S.African olive, a pair of White-headed
pigeons eating the fruit - amongst all the noise, bustle and pollution of a
Sydney late innter city afternoon. My English birder saw them first, I got
a quick glimpse before the lights went green and got a real surprise - a
red eye in a very white head with the greyer female besides him.

Penny Drake-Brockman, Examination Recitals Co-ordinator, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.
Tel: 02 9351 1254.
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