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Friday, April 17, 2015

DIAMOND DOVE

Photographed near Cue, Western Australia April 2015
571           DIAMOND DOVE             Geopelia cuneata

Australia            (414)

19-22 cm. Found in drier grassy woodlands, scrub near water, wooded watercourses. Ranges across drier parts of all mainland states, except driest deserts; mostly absent from coastal s. Aust., s. WA(s. of Murchison R.) and Nullarbor Plain: scarce Cape York Pen. (Q).