Crested Pigeon breeding

[Lia Battisson <>]

I have a Crested Pigeon  on a nest in my neighbour’s garden, but sadly this morning I found a carcass on my back lawn.  Unanswered questions:  Was it a cat or a raptor that took it?  Was it one of the breed pair?  The attached photo is of a barred feather which lay beside it. 
Does it belong to a raptor, or the last bird that the raptor took? 

The nest isn’t occupied at this moment.

Regards
Lia

> On 25 Sep 2021, at 07:49, Anthony Overs via Canberrabirds <> wrote:
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> Morning all
>
> The Crested Pigeons I reported as nest building on 5 August have successfully raised two young.
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> The nest is in a dense grevillea which is about three metres high. It’s in my front garden.
> From one angle I could look straight in at the sitting bird.
>
> The nest was empty four days ago, but the two young had left and moved deeper into the shrub sitting there with an adult. I could see them from my lounge room window.
>
> The two young made their first flights yesterday, with one going about four metres and crash landing in a conifer where the parents were. The second bird made it about six metres up to the roof gutter. I popped out and had a look, it peered back at me, while the parents called with urgency. It then flew over to them, crash landing as well. The flights were highly amusing!
>
> The adults went to and from the nest site often, first building, then swapping sitting duty, then feeding young. They never gave their position away to the currawongs nesting in the tree in the neighbour’s front yard very close by.
>
> Cheers
> Anthony
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