Avian Identity Crisis
November 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm (Birds, General, Home)
For the last couple of days a Common (feral) Pigeon (Columbia livia) has been coming to our garden. Not too much unusual about that. Trouble is that he is on his own and feeling, how can I say this – somewhat frisky. With no one of his own kind around, he has been bowing and cooing to the Crested Pigeons (Ocyphaps lophotes) and the Common Bronzewings (Phaps chalcoptera). Of course neither of these other two species will have anything to do with him.
But he still keeps on trying…
