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Mystery Pigeon in Wamboin

To: Mark Clayton <>
Subject: Mystery Pigeon in Wamboin
From: Kim Farley via Canberrabirds <>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 02:15:27 +0000
I am a bit late to this discussion, but for interest just a few White headeds turn up in our district most years, including several photographed on a power line in Queanbeyan some months ago. Records on eBird and probably elsewhere too. 
Kim

On Sat, 4 Nov 2023, 6:55 am Mark Clayton via Canberrabirds, <> wrote:

Definitely a youngish White-headed Pigeon. They, like the Pacific Koel and Channel-billed Cuckoo are slowly moving south. In 1997 while working in the “Eden Woodchip Concession” Wayne Braithwaite and I recorded the then furthest known southern record for the species, about 1 km from the Victorian border. They are now regular in eastern Victoria and have become a visitor locally in small numbers.

 

Mark

 

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Subject: [Canberrabirds] 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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