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Armchair birdwatching

To: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Subject: Armchair birdwatching
From: "martin butterfield" <>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:50:01 +1000
Geoffrey
 
To add to the confusion, some of the lower ones look to have yellow bills, rather than the red, tipped with yellow of the white-headed pigeon.  I can't make any alternative suggestions however.
 
Martin

 
On 4/23/07, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

The ABC 'Painting Australia' program last Tuesday was set at Mullumbimby in the Byron Bay hinterland.  I was puzzled by the brief shot of a flock of black and white birds flying by at dusk.  They looked long-tailed and at first sight I took them for some kind of heron.  Then I wondered if the shot was slowed down to make it a little more cinegenic.  Having examined a frame, I can only think of White-headed Pigeons, a common enough bird for that area.  I am at a loss to explain the apparent black caps and the dark bellies on all of them, though. 

 

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