A solitary Crested Pigeon is perched, in profile, on an old wooden fence rail in the outback town of Bourke in New South Wales in Australia.
The crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for the far northern tropical areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the spinifex pigeon. The crested pigeon is the larger of the two species. The crested pigeon is sometimes referred to as a topknot pigeon, a common name shared with the reddish crested Lopholaimus antarcticus of Eastern Australia.
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Location: Bourke, New South Wales, Australia,
Photo credit: © Photography By Marco / Alamy / Afripics
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