![]() | Bronzewing Male, Head, anterior | Bronzewing Female, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
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, "Da Walk" 🔎 | Other name: | Common Bronzewing | Thank you Janine Duffy for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: Notice here the green reflections, compared to the bronze on the other photo's. It is just a different angle of light reflection. 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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