When I was young, for several years I had Diamond Doves (with finches) in my aviary and so I became very familiar with them, not just from my collection but
many others as well. As nice as they are, they do tend to be rather nervous and so they often look at bit tattered or scruffy, from collisions with wire mesh and other things. The Diamond Doves I have seen in a wild state, though there aren’t many of them
(and unlikely to be escaped birds because they were all far away from cities etc), have looked rather neat. The one in the photo does look on the scruffy side to me. I know that is not scientific or in any way definitive, either in every case or in this case,
but I offered my suggestion based at least partly on that, and not that it is just an easy option to go down the old prejudiced view of something is just an aviary escaped bird. The same observations apply to Peaceful Doves (less popular in captivity), that
have quite similar behaviour and I have far more wild experience of.
Philip .
From: Kim Farley [
Sent: Monday, 27 June, 2022 5:30 PM
To: Philip Veerman
Cc: Lyndon Howe; Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Emailing: DSC_7130.jpg
An interested sighting. Diamond Doves were reported (and photographed) over several months in the second half of 2021 at Glendale Depot in Namadgi NP. The species was also reported near Yankee Hat car park in January 2022. As with the
earlier reports, seen and photographed by multiple people. I would have to check eBird but I think that in at least one of those cases there was a pair.
Outside the ACT, Diamond Doves have also been turning up in places where they have not been seen for a fair while. Bimbi State Forest/Weddin Range springs to mind but eBird records other places as well.
So Lyndon's Parkwood bird might be a wild bird not an aviary escapee .
ACT eBird reviewer (currently in SA with poor internet access!)
On Mon, 27 Jun. 2022, 2:09 pm Philip Veerman, <> wrote:
Well yes, Clearly is a Diamond Dove (without the "). Chances are it is an
escaped aviary bird. They are a commonly kept species.
Philip
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Sent: Monday, 27 June, 2022 1:09 PM
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"Diamond Dove" seen at Parkwood horse paddocks. Spent about an hour
following into trees and foraging on the ground, at times near horses.
Lyndon Howe.
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