Hi Meredyth,
Angus's find is certainly unusual as he has already realised. A good site to
find information on bird distribution is www.birdata.com.au/maps.vm
By typing the bird's name in the box you get by default a distribution map of
the species for all Australia. It allows zooming in to almost any level of
detail. The other very useful feature for migratory birds is the ability to
refine the search by month. As you can see with the Pied Imperial Pigeon, the
nearest record to you is Port Macquarie (in fact the only record for all of NSW
in Birdata). But to make it even more unusual, most of these birds migrate to
PNG for the winter and so there are not that many records in May even in its
normal range. So it is probably an escaped bird. Though it could be the result
of a reverse migration - where a young bird flies in the wrong direction for
its migration. This is the time of year that this can happen. Tell him to keep
a look out - it could turn up again.
Regards
Mark Stanley
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