Fiona and Peter
I first noticed metropolitan Crested Pigeons when my son was playing school
sport in the Keysborough area 8-10 years ago and have been dutifully
reporting my observations to BOCA for the last few years.
There are a few places in my neighbourhood (Box Hill) where relatively
small flocks (2-10) are present and I recently saw a flock of around 20
birds at La Trobe's Bundoora campus.
BOCA may be able to provide less anecdotal information about the spread of
Crested Pigeons.
Regards
David
"Peter Shute"
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01/05/08 10:57 AM Subject
RE: [Birding-Aus] Explosion of
Crested Pigeons in suburban
Melbourne
I've only lived in Altona for 4 years and been birding for 18 months, so
I can't comment on any long term trends. I'm under the impression that
there were always more of them in Melbourne's western suburbs than in
the east (can anyone confirm that?), but I have noticed a lot more
recently.
I've been seeing several of them in my street daily where I was only
seeing one or two occasionally before. I have also had over a dozen
around my house at times, but had thought that a large area of newly
sown grass in the industrial land behind might have been the reason for
that.
Peter Shute
wrote on Thursday, 1 May 2008 10:33
AM:
> Good Morning birders,
>
> A couple or three years ago, I saw my first pair of crested
> pigeons in the local park in Bulleen where I live. These
> have been periodic visitors since but never more than 2.
> Last week, there were at least 11 feeding on the soccer oval.
> This week I counted well over 50 birds on the same oval.
> Next day on a nature strip in our street there were 5
> feeding. Has anyone else noticed such a surge in numbers of
> these invaders from the north? In this area at least, they
> seem to be displacing the introduced turtle-necked dove which isn't a
> bad thing, I guess.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fiona
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