Alice Springs Birds •
Alice Springs BirdsAlice Springs Birds — image index Babblers Black-faced Cuckooshrike Brown Falcon Channel-billed Cuckoo Crested Pigeon Galah Magpie-lark Musk Duck Port Lincoln Ringneck Rainbow Bee-eater Sacred Kingfisher Sanderling Spinifex Pigeon Singing Honeyeater Southern Boobook Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Splendid Fairy-wren Spotted Dove Wedge-tailed Eagle Western Bowerbird Whistling Kite White-plumed Honeyeater Willie Wagtail Yellow-throated Miner
The wonderful Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) is a small crested pigeon with rusty/bluff coloured plumage and a tall bluff coloured upright crest. They have black and buff crescentric bars on the upper parts of the body and wings and a conspicuous red patch across the eyes.
A ground feeding pigeon, their habitat is usually in spinifex, arid and semi-arid desert habitats, rocky ranges, gorges, hilly sandy ridge regions. Here in Alice Springs you have great chance to see wild ones running around and foraging as you walk around the Alice Springs Desert Park.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Columbiformes
- Family: Columbidae
- Genus: Geophaps
- Species: Geophaps plumifera
More information and images of the
- Spinifex Pigeon at the Alice Springs Desert Park
- Spinifex Pigeon at Finke Gorge National Park
- Spinifex Pigeon at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
- Spinifex Pigeon at Watarrka National Park
- Birds > Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera)
Alice Springs BirdsAlice Springs Birds — image index Babblers Black-faced Cuckooshrike Brown Falcon Channel-billed Cuckoo Crested Pigeon Galah Magpie-lark Musk Duck Port Lincoln Ringneck Rainbow Bee-eater Sacred Kingfisher Sanderling Spinifex Pigeon Singing Honeyeater Southern Boobook Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Splendid Fairy-wren Spotted Dove Wedge-tailed Eagle Western Bowerbird Whistling Kite White-plumed Honeyeater Willie Wagtail Yellow-throated Miner
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