Feed time (Crested Pigeon)

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This juvenile Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) seemed to have the best of both worlds: alternating
between being fed by its parent and grazing on the local ground cover.

The Crested Pigeon is a common pigeon in the more open, fairly dry parts of Australia.
It feeds on the ground. It can be quite 'tame' at times and this adult bird came to within a metre
of me while I was photographing it and its offspring.

The Adult bird here had a severely deformed left foot but obviously this was not a real problem to
its viability.

Bob Inglis
Woody Point
Queensland
Australia