Bronzewing
Male Mating Call
Bronzewing
Male, anterior
| Bronzewing Male Mating Call | | Bronzewing Male, anterior | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Doves and Pigeons (Columbiformes) | ||||
| Family: | Dove and Pigeon (Columbidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, profile | ||||
| Other name: | Common Bronzewing | ||||
Thank you Janine Duffy for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere Native pigeon. Bright, metallic green and bronze wing patterns. Solid dull bronze underwing. Clumsy / scatty. The green and bronze reflections in the wings in these photos are not gender related. Purely the angle of the light. The males have a chestnut cap and beautiful gentle chestnut tones on the chest; with a buff forehead. The females are much more grey (with a very faint chestnut tint on the breast), with a white streak above the eye; missing the chestnut cap & buff forehead. Both genders have a white streak below the eye. | |||||
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