Scraping Pigeons
by Daniel Hebard
Title
Scraping Pigeons
Artist
Daniel Hebard
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Scraping Pigeons
I watched for an hour as I observed the Collored Imperial (righht) pigeon challenge the Saluwesi Imperial pigeon fighting for posswssion of this nest and single eqq.
Wikioedia offers this information;
“The collared imperial pigeon, (Ducula mullerii), is a large pigeon native to New Guinea and adjacent islands.
The species has an average body length of 40 cm and weighs about 600 g. Its has grey upperparts and largely grey-pink underparts, and is distinguished by a striking and diagnostic complete black collar against an otherwise white throat.[2]
The collared imperial pigeon occurs in northern and southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands. It has also been recorded from Boigu and Saibai islands. It may visit the northern Torres Straitislands as a vagrant.[1]
It inhabits lowland rainforest, swamp forest, mangroves and riverine vegetation.
The pigeon principally feeds on fruit from forest trees and insects. In the Port Moresby area, the main food during June/July was reported to be fruit of Tristiropsis canarioides which made up nearly half the diet. Some 30% of food volume were ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata) fruit, the remainder being various Arecaceae (palm) fruits. Food is swallowed whole, and fruits thus eaten may have a diameter of up to 5 c
The species lays a single egg on a flimsy platform nest in forest tree adjoining wetland.”
The Sulawesi Green Impereial Pigeon as described at the San Diego zoo is a species of Imperial Pigeons in the south pacific and Indonesia not well identified in Wikipedia though they exhibit characteristics,size,nesting habits identified of the Imperial Pigeon species listed in Wikipedia. Wikipedia offers an indepth but incomplete study of these species of Pigeon as follows;
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May 4th, 2018
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