Re: birding-aus rainbow lorikeets vs pigeons

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Goodfellow wrote:

>
> Some Bar-shouldered Doves at our feeding tray are very aggressive, but
> not only toward their own kind or the much smaller Peaceful Doves.  They
> will pick finches up by the nape feathers and fling them off the tray.

Hi all.
Several decades ago I visited Ms Lexie Nichols in WA, who was then famous as
a bird rescuer. She told me that doves are the most inappropriate bird as a
symbol of peace, fighting to the death if the wrong ones are caged together.
I've never forgotten her words.
Anne Green

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