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26 comments:
Emerald Doves are often found on the edges of walking tracks, sunning!
Incredible!!! Can I ask what sort of camera you use. Apart from your obvious skill and class (suck suck suck) you take the best photos ... and my camera is making a bit of a weird noise so i thinkI need to preapre for the inevitable :-/
Hheheee, I'll answer your comment without the sucking Mountaingirl :) I use a Canon Powershot S3. It's inexpensive, has movie function, can be bashed about and you can Google the specifics :) It isn't the sort of camera that slips into a pocket but I'm very happy with it.
The bird is very beautiful. It's plummage is clearly for camouflage as it looks like the ground with leaf. I think I like this bird, my favorite so far. (Don't tell Jack - I am referring to the wild ones only) Simple yet smart.
Absolutely different from its moulting phase. You mentioned then that its beautiful. It is. Great Job Anonymous Bird! Tsup!
Tsup! Ces, I just blocked Jack from reading what you said because he fancies himself as 'wild'! Heehee This bird is still moulting a little, but she is looking simple yet smart as you say :)
Gorgeous bird! Our doves here are the plain variety. They always make me giggle when they try to land on the phone wires...the bobble and sway like, ummmm, chubby bobbly swaying things.
How could Jack be wild if he lives in a castle and dances to music?
You might be surprised at how many doves are found in your area Debra Kay! I was surprised to find there are around thirty varieties in Australia with 2 introduced. It could make for a lot of giggling keeping an eye out ;)
Jack goes VERY wild when flying around the house Ces! He's also a wild dancer ;)
Ah! Chalcophaps indica, 'The Emerald Dove,' this is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia as far as Randwick High Street. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove and Green Gregory. It has a number of subspecies, with two existing in Australia, being the Longirostris (from Kimberly sports centre, Western Australia, to Cape York Peninsula near the town clock) and Chrysochlora (from Cape York Peninsula by the cafe to southern New South Wales where the shoe shop is, as well as Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island wherever they are).
This is a common species in rainforest and similar dense wet woodlands, farms, gardens, bathrooms, mangroves, tea bags, and coastal heaths. It builds a semi-detached stick nest up a Gum Tree five miles high and lays two orange-coloured chairs.
These photographs are so exciting viz a viz their exciting colours ipso facto!
One can't add to that.
prof fufu-u, tea bags? five miles high?...now I've heard everything. Thanks for that fascinating report.
ps, Don't try to get on Jepordy.
Professor Fufu-u's comment is exciting viz a viz your excited interpretation of Chalcophaps indica! Race longirostris lives from Walcott Inlet, Kimberley in Western Australia through to the Top End in Northern Territory! But the race chrysochlora as pictured above ranges within all those other places you've mentioned. Maybe not Randwick Street where the last one was run over :) They nest up to five meters above ground Heehee!!
I just did ElizT :)
Professor Fufu-u probably doesn't watch television Red Mojo :)
Is Jepordy a horse?
I'm pretty sure you would find a horse named that at Randwick ProfessorFufu-u! By the way, this dove's eggs are creamy-white, not just this one's but its whole race :)
We watched our Ms. Chicky take exactly the same kind of sunbath today. My Sweetie thought she was dying or something - as he didn't know what she was doing. (Ms. Chicky is a Brahma hen - and a handsome one she is.) We have doves here, but they are mostly of the dull sort - lots of brown and spots.
You're right Onedia, a flamboyant magician!
Hhehheee TsDuff, about your Sweetie thinking Ms. Chicky wasn't well :) Our Magpies have given me a scare quite often with their 'dead' sunbaking poses :)
There's only one thing more scary than a big magpie and that's a dead one!
Only if there are MAGOTS everywhere ElizT! Ooozing magots are my greatest fear ... *vomit*
Thanks Anony :-)
My pleasure Mountaingirl :)
How would the professor know that the bird lives in bathrooms and tea bags unless he checks other people's bathrooms and tea bags? I also think that he is confusing this dove's eggs with one boiled-egg on a deckchair?
When I read prof Fufu-u's comment, I realize I don't speak English at all... *sigh*
"Nice bird!" would have been my comment...
What a beauty! It's almost looks like the wrong wings got stuck on her because around here our doves are similar but all grayish-brown. :) Our gold finches are molting and look very silly with their mottled coats -- but soon they will be bright yellow!
I agree with Ces and absolute beauty!
My favourite shade of green too :-D
I'm not a Professor of Professors Ces!
Thankyou MerlinPrincesse, it is a nice bird and your English is fine!
Birds do look silly in both fluffy and bald mottled coats Melissa :) They are like the Ugly Duckling who blossomed into a beauty!
That is a very impressive shade of green Miladysa, the colour of rich mineral :)
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