CHESTNUT-QUILLED ROCK-PIGEON

Photographed in Kakadu National Park, May 2016

775         CHESTNUT-QUILLED ROCK-PIGEON           Petrophassa rufippennis

Australia             (619)

Found on sandstone escarpments, with gullies, gorges, tumbled rocks; eucalyptus, figs, other softwoods, pockets of rainforest; nearby grassy woodlands. 28-32 cm. Range: west Arnham Land (NT), from c. Oenpelli s. to Katherine R., mostly in Kakadu NP. Locally common; sedentary.

Note: clear views of two birds but these were the only photographs Until replaced.

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.