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male cloven-feathered dove (Drepanoptila holosericea)
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male cloven-feathered dove (Drepanoptila holosericea)

an endemic pigeon that is still locally-common in forests but declining due to hunting. This is one of my favourite New Caledonian birds. It has a very oddly-shaped head, beautiful colouration, and bizarre white puffs of feathers on its legs which make a wierd noise when it flies. They are quite difficult to see in the wild because they blend in so well to the canopy where they live, but they can be heard quite readily as they produce their monotonous oow oow oow like miniature green foghorns in the trees :D

August 2010. Review here: http://www.zoochat.com/92/parc-zoologique-et-forestier-169406/
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Chlidonias
an endemic pigeon that is still locally-common in forests but declining due to hunting. This is one of my favourite New Caledonian birds. It has a very oddly-shaped head, beautiful colouration, and bizarre white puffs of feathers on its legs which make a wierd noise when it flies. They are quite difficult to see in the wild because they blend in so well to the canopy where they live, but they can be heard quite readily as they produce their monotonous oow oow oow like miniature green foghorns in the trees :D

August 2010. Review here: http://www.zoochat.com/92/parc-zoologique-et-forestier-169406/
 
Chlidonias
the first time I ever heard about this species was when reading "Rare Birds Of The World" by Guy Mountfort and Norman Arlott (1989), which had a superb painting of a male. It became one of those animals that remains in your head as one you want to see one day. In fact the cloven-feathered dove was my most-wanted bird to see in New Caledonia when I went there, even more desired than the kagu which is what most birders go there for!

A check of ISIS and Zootierliste shows none in any of the zoos covered.
 
Chlidonias
on display they had one pair in this aviary (there's a photo of the female elsewhere in the Gallery), and more in the walk-in aviary but I'm not sure how many (probably just another pair).
 

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