What do wonga pigeons eat

They also eat invertebrates such as snails, cockroaches and caterpillars which makes up a large part of its daily food requirements unlike many other species of pigeons and doves.

You often see them alone or in pairs, as they are solitary animals and widely disperse themselves within forested areas. Pigeons are generally very wary animals and will fly away at the slightest inkling of trouble.

During breeding season both parents care for the young and laying two eggs on a platform of twigs and vines, high in the fork of a tree. The male and female pigeons and doves feed their chicks pigeon milk made in their crops, which they regurgitate into the crop of their chick. This is where it stores the berries and crushed seed which is slowly digested into its system.

The digestive systems of the Fruit doves and pigeons removes the fleshy parts from the fruit and pass out the seeds, thus helping the reproduction of these tree species into other areas. Adult has grey upperparts, with wings and tail slightly washed brownish. On the underside, throat is grey, extending until the lower breast, and bordered on each side by a long white patch forming conspicuous V.

Underparts are white, spotted with blackish crescents extending to flanks. Underwings are pale brownish-grey. Undertail coverts are blackish with buffy-white edges. Tail feathers are grey, tipped white. Head is whitish on forehead and chin. Crown and nape are grey. Bill is dark grey with pinkish-red cere.

Eyes are dark brown with pinkish-red eye-ring. Lores are black. Legs and feet are pinkish-red. Both sexes are similar. Juvenile is browner than adults on upperparts, and has more indistinct white V on breast.

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