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Monday, May 2, 2016

PARTRIDGE PIGEON

Photographed at Darwin River, May 2016
771           PARTRIDGE PIGEON               Geophaps smithii

Australia        (615)

Found in woodlands with short grass; open, rocky or sandy ground by streams, watercourses; roadsides; areas of newly burned grass or bush; seldom far from water. 25-28 cm. Range: coastal nw Aust., from Kimberley (WA), s to Cockatoo Spring; Top End (NT), s. to Mataranka-Mallapunyah; possibly into extreme nw Q. Locally common, sedentary.