We have always had doves around, but lately we have positively been taken over ! They coo morning, afternoon and evening.. Make sorties to the feeding stations.. Roost on the Shehtoot tree - as indeed I can see one now as I type.. while another surveys the scene from our balcony railing..
These pictures were taken a couple years earlier..
I read up a bit about the pigeon / dove branch of birds - apparently, they bob their heads in an attempt to keep their vision constant.
The guys you see in this picture are Laughing Doves.. common across India..
Two famous extinct species, the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon, belonged to this branch of birds.
The Passenger Pigeon was once the most numerous species of bird on earth.
In 1871, a single breeding colony was estimated to contain over a hundred million birds, yet the last individual in the species was dead by 1914. The species is thought to have been massively over-hunted for food for the poor.
I read up a bit about the pigeon / dove branch of birds - apparently, they bob their heads in an attempt to keep their vision constant.
The guys you see in this picture are Laughing Doves.. common across India..
Two famous extinct species, the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon, belonged to this branch of birds.
The Passenger Pigeon was once the most numerous species of bird on earth.
In 1871, a single breeding colony was estimated to contain over a hundred million birds, yet the last individual in the species was dead by 1914. The species is thought to have been massively over-hunted for food for the poor.
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