Peaceful Dove
CommonGBIF 7.3·Dongniao Rarity Index8.00
Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida) 戈氏姬地鸠，是鸽形目鸠鸽科姬地鸠属的鸟类。颈部和胸部有显著的条纹，眼睛周围环绕着淡蓝色的眼圈。分布广泛，主要栖息于澳大利亚和新几内亚的开放生境中。
Peaceful Dove
19-21 cm. Tiny pink-grey and grey-brown dove with fine black-and-white scalloping on upperbreast. Eye greyish white; blue-grey eye-ring connects with bill, cere. Juvenile: paler, less barred; eye grey-white with dull grey eye-ring. Pairs, parties, autumn-winter flocks: feeds on ground; tame in streets, gardens. Flushes with a 'frrr' of wings; flies in a quick, undulating, flip-flip style; note chestnut wing linings and dark grey undersides of flight-feathers - reverse of Diamond Dove's wing pattern; less extensive white tips to black outer tail feathers.
- Similar Species
- Diamond Dove: red eye-ring; white spots on wings. See imm. Diamond. Bar-shouldered Dove: bigger; coppery hindneck; unbarred grey breast.
- Voice
- well-loved, falsetto, musical 'doodle-doo', also a falsetto 'co-co-coo'; emphatic 'croorrr!' in display.
- Habitat
- scrublands, especially acacias; open, grassed woodlands near water; scrubby, lightly timbered watercourses; rainforest-fringes, agricultural country, roadsides, parks, gardens, fowlyards, railyards.
- Breeding
- mostly Oct.-Jan. in s. Aust.; March-June in n.
- Nest
- scanty, of sticks; up to 7 m on horizontal branch or fork in leafy shrub or tree; citrus in orchard, pepper-tree near homestead.
- Eggs
- 2; white, rounded.
- Range & Status
- coastal e., n. and nw. Aust.: from se. SA to Kimberley and Pilbara (WA), coastally s. to c. Murchison R. Absent from, or sparse sw. WA. and Nullarbor region; w. deserts; c. Aust.; w. SA; s.-c. Vic., where replaced by Spotted Turtle-Dove. Sedentary. Also s. PNG-Malaysia.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Geopelia placida placida 2. Geopelia placida clelandi
