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Superb fruit-dove range

To: Andrew Noosa <>
Subject: Superb fruit-dove range
From: Andy Burton <>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:46:21 +1100

They seem to pass through Sydney in the Mar - Apr period, apparently in small numbers, and one assumes also in Spring. Small numbers of dead and injured birds (window kills) are found in some (most?) years. This is particularly so in Sydney's northern suburbs. They presumably travel to and from the remnant rainforest patches on the NSW south coast

Andy







Re the range of this species, Pizzey states that they come down the east coast to about Moruya but have turned up in Tassie. I note that Frith in his book, Pigeons and Doves of Australia, acknowledges that birds have been recorded reliably down to Vic and Tassie, but he calls birds south of about Rockhampton "vagrants" (unmethodical wanderers?). Is that a correct description? They seem to have a set migration pattern here in Noosa - heading south around Sep/Oct and back north Mar/April. I assume they breed up north and that there is some form of southerly migration. Can anyone comment on this? I don't have access to HANZAB. Perhaps Alan Morris can enlighten us about how common the birds are in NSW? Frith also suggests that they don't compete for food much with the rose-crowned fruit-dove, that they will come down lower for vines etc. Does anyone have any experience of this?
Thanks for any info
Andrew

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