Speckled Pigeon

by Maria Angelica Maira

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Speckled Pigeon

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Maria Angelica Maira

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Photograph - Digital Art - Photography - Mixed Media

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Lives in open areas and urban spaces.
Range: Africa, south of the Sahara Desert
Speckled Pigeons are a reddish purple, with white speckles along their wings and a red skin patch around their eye. Flocks may consist of several hundred individuals and often socialize on the ground to feed, particularly where food is abundant. They eat seeds, groundnuts, and cultivated grains. They are good flyers, often flying high in the sky, using steady wing beats to fly quickly
Males attract females by crouching down, lowering their head, vocalizing, and twitching their wings. Like most pigeons, they clap their wings behind their back.

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April 27th, 2023

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