Peaceful doves have a blue eye
ring and top of beak.
In Diamond doves the amount of
red around the eye and richness of
colour is often a sign of a gender, with males having brighter red and a bigger ring around the
eye.
With Peaceful doves there seems
to be no correlation between gender and
the intensity of colour (which
varies little, except sick birds can be paler
blue) or the size of the eye ring which
varies little.
Peaceful doves are not commonly
kept in captivity in Canberra. I know of only one other person, I
have kept them for years and bred a few, but have found it almost impossible to
get mates for my birds in Canberra. So I think they are unlikely to be
escapees. Peaceful doves do seem to be spreading in distribution and may be an
expanding woodland species. But that is just my impression. Their natural distribution extends quite close to
Canberra. They are a common bird
across much of Australia and I often hear them calling in the background on many
Australian TV shows.
Benj
Nearby was a diminutive dove, a Peaceful
Dove I presume.
It had blue/green at the base of its bill and
around the eye
not a "trop de camera"
.
Is this indicative of an escaped cage bird ?
It was a long way from tame.
roger curnow
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