In NSW if you look very hard, and for a long time in the right place you will find a Rose Crowned Fruit Pigeon/Dove. Particularly where large Camphor-laurel trees grow, as they like to eat the fruit from it.

Fruit doves in NSW are a very rare sight. Their numbers seem to be declining as well. Although that sounds very concerning the NSW government ( Read more... )

Quite possibly the most exotic pigeon I will ever write about is the Australian Fruit Dove/Pigeon. These doves are fruitiverous, meaning they only eat fruit.

There are about 50 spiecies of fuit doves that are concetrated across Australia, New Guinnie, and the Phillippines.  Most are critically endangered, and some are already extinct by the time I ( Read more... )