My reaction is it is a pretty stock standard immature White-headed Pigeon (a
wild bird). Pretty hard to come up with anything else. They are along the NSW
coast and over the years we get them in Canberra occasionally too.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Canberrabirds
On Behalf Of David Cook via Canberrabirds
Sent: Friday, 3 November, 2023 9:49 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Mystery Pigeon in Wamboin
Hi,
The attached photos are of a pigeon that came into our bird feeder yesterday
(in Wamboin), and hung around for a few hours.
I have no idea what it is - it has the size and jizz of an imperial or mountain
pigeon but I can't identify it from the references I have access to. It looks a
bit like the Buru Mountain-Pigeon but I can't imagine there'd be too many of
those in Australia!
I assume it's an aviary escapee, though I hadn't realised this type of pigeon
was even kept in aviaries. Any ideas?
David
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