Crested Pigeon

Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike

Black-Backed Magpie

Chestnut Teal

Crested Pigeon

Domestic Pigeon

Eastern Rosella

Figbird

Galah

Little Corella

Noisy Miners

Rainbow Lorikeets

Grey Butcher Bird

Home

Scaley Breasted Lorikeet

Crested Pigeon

Ocyphaps lophotes

DISTRIBUTION: Australia generally, except areas with high rainfall in the far south-east, north-eastern Queensland, and the Top End; also absent from Tasmania. Has expanded it's range considerably since European settlement, and is apparently still doing so in some east coastal areas.

NOTES: Also called Topknot pigeon and Crested Bronzewing. In pairs, small parties of five or six; sometimes large flocks, frequenting mainly inland districts. It's favourite haunts are lightly-wooded savannah country, usually near waterways or dams. Sedentary, common. It's flight is rapid and is marked by a metallic whistling of the wings; on alighting, it tips it's tail in a highly characteristic manner. Food: seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants

NEST: A frail platform of twigs, usually placed in a bushy horizontal branch up to seven or eight metres from the ground.

EGGS: Two; white, Breeding-season: practically throughout the year, but chiefly during spring and summer

references from What Bird is That? Neville W. Cayley. 1931 revised by Terence Lyndsey. 1984 ...Angus and Robertson, Sydney Australia

(left) Looking a bit pompous, two crested pigeons seem to hesitate to join a flock of aggressively feeding domestic pigeons.

(Below) They made up their minds, lowered their heads, and ran wildly through the domestic pigeons, pecking as fast as they could without falling over. As they arrived back in the clear they flew off as though being chased by something very nasty