Regarding the ID, I've done my best to investigate some the ideas that have
been offered.
I suppose I'd need to talk to a breeder of fruit doves, to see if the
immature-to-adult moult cycle can involve the juvenile's yellow belly
changing to a bright red-orange, without the crown changing to purple until
later afterwards.
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I had a really good look on the net for information- theres not much.
Although I found a well documented article on the wires web site about a
rescued male rose crowned fruit dove. At 1 year of age it still had a yellow
belly, and some brighter patchy purple feathers on its head. Overall, it had
the `patchy' appearance of an immature bird moulting and a noticable rose
crown.- no red yet on the belly, just yellow.
The bird we spotted was not patchy- it looked like a bird in breeding
plumage, with bright colours. It had no crown, and the belly was noticably
red-orange, not yellow.
This is the link: Any more information would be appreciated.
http://www.wiresnr.org/doveimages.html
Steven, from what you're saying it's not legal to breed exotic fruit pigeons
in Australia? What about illegal breeding?
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