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COMMON BRONZEWING FACTS |
Description
The Common Bronzewing is a medium sized pigeon with metallic patches of green, blue and red on the wings. There is a white line above and below the eye. The male has a pale yellowish white forehead and pink breast. Immatures are duller than the adults, and do not have prominent wing patches.
Size
30cm - 36cm
Habitat
Common Bronzewings are found in most habitat types except barren desert and dense rainforest.
Food
seeds, fruit, plants.
Breeding
Common Bronzewings build a nest of sticks and twigs in a tree or bush. Two creamy-white eggs are laid. The young are born naked and helpless.
Range
common throughout Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Columbiformes | | Family: | Columbidae | | Genus: | Phaps | | Species: | chalcoptera | | Common Name: | Common Bronzewing |
Relatives in same Genus
Brush Bronzewing (P. elegans)
Flock Bronzewing (P. histrionica)
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