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CRESTED PIGEON FACTS |
Description
The Crested Pigeon is greyish in colour with thin crest. The wings have bronze patches. It is the only grey Australian pigeon with slender crest.
Other Names
Crested Bronzewing
Size
32 cm
Habitat
open country, settled areas, farmland
Food
seeds, berries, insects
Breeding
sparse nest of twigs in shrub or tree, 2 white eggs
Range
Australian mainland, except far tropical north and southern parts of Victoria and South 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: | Ocyphaps | | Species: | lophotes | | Common Name: | Crested Pigeon |
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