Friday, May 22, 2015

WHITE-QUILLED ROCK-PIGEON

Photographed at Bell Gorge, Western Australia, May 2015
607          WHITE-QUILLED ROCK-PIGEON            Petrophassa albipennis

Australia           (450)

26-29 cm. Blackish brown in Kimberley becoming lighter, reddish eastward towards NT. Found in rugged sandstone ranges, gullies, gorges in pockets of monsoon forests, figs and adjoining eucalypt forests. Range: Kimberley (WA), from inland of Derby s. to Argyle Downs, e. into w.NT on upper Victoria R. and Stokes Range, where race boothi occur.





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