![]() ![]() Diamond Doves also eat a little green material and, occasionally, insects-which can be a very significant addition to their diet in some months. In central Australia, the most important source of seeds is Glinus lotoides, which provide more than a quarter of the bird’s total diet. When feeding, the Diamond Dove walks with a slow and regular gait, although it can run quite fast, with a wobble, holding its long tail up and away from the ground. But it feeds and spends much of its time on the ground. Feeding: – Diamond Doves feed on the ground to eat ants, and almost entirely on very small seeds from a wide variety of drought-evading ephemeral plants, mostly herbs, and grasses. They are often seen sitting on the electric wires in the scorching heat. Heat Absorption: – Diamond dove has an exceptional tolerance level to absorb extreme heat, due to perfect body temperature, water balance, behavior, metabolism, and respiration. Also, the downy young is similar to sand-colored. Eye, and skin around the eye, fawn, the bill is grey with legs greyish. Throat and breast grey with darker brown scalloping lower breast and belly light brown. Moreover, the immature birds’ upper pares are brown with obscure dusky and grey flecking. The female bird is similar to the male, but a bit duller and browner on foreparts. Eye and skin around the eye, red, and bill light grey, and feet is pink. Upperside of wings brown-grey spotted liberally with white spots under shoulders grey-brown flight feathers chestnut. ![]() Throat and breast pale blue-grey lower breast and underside of tail white. Identification: – Well, the male head and neck are pale blue-grey back, rump, and upper side of slender tail delicate grey-brown outer tail feathers tipped very extensively white. Many of the small local flocks that live in well-watered districts towards the coast probably have arisen from past invasions and are not necessarily permanent there. In times of drought in the interior, the populations disperse. The doves often arrive in procession then, each bird walking to the water’s edge, submerging its bill and sucking to imbibe its fill before flying off to make way for the next. Most drinking, nevertheless, is done in the later afternoon. Before dawn, at desert waterholes, the air is filled with a soft cooing as the birds await sunrise before going to drink. ![]() Usually, Diamond Doves are live in small groups, but in the early morning, hundreds of birds may gather at the water. In arid regions, Diamond Doves are nomadic and move in large numbers from place to place, seeking out areas where rain has fallen. However, in the bow it raises its tail vertically, much higher than the other species. Habitats: – The sexual displays of the Diamond Dove are similar to those of other members of the genus Geopelia. It must have access to water and some trees for nesting and roosting. It is particularly spotted commonly in dry, (Gardens/Parks of Southern Australia) open savanna in mulga areas. The red-eye dove is widely distributed in Australia but is essentially a bird of the semi-arid, and arid zone near the water area. Description: – Diamond dove ( Geopelia cuneata) is the smallest member of the pigeon family.
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