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Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon
Otidiphaps nobilis nobilis
IUCN Status: Least concern.
Size: Length; 50cm. Weight; 500g.
Habitat and distribution: New Guinea. Montane areas, also lowlands and primary rain forest.
Groups and breeding: Nest is generally a platform of sticks at the front of a bush or tree. Lay a single egg which is incubated for around 26 days, by both parents.
Diet: Seeds and fallen fruit
- This species is mainly terrestrial, spending most of its time on the forest floor.
- This species is one of the 309 species which form the Columbidae family (pigeons and doves).
- The now extinct Dodo was a member of the pigeon family.
- Flight muscles in pigeons tend to be larger in comparison with other bird groups. Their flight muscles may make up to 44 per cent. of the bird’s body weight!
- There are no differences between pigeons and doves other than size.
- Pigeons produce a crop milk to feed their chicks.
- Pigeons are excellent navigators and use both the magnetic field of the planet and the position of the sun to find their way.
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