SaritaWolf

Dove/pigeon at the National Aquarium - June 2019

This photo has been floating around in my zoo photos folder for so long that I’ve forgotten the species. I’m not even sure if the aquarium still has them.

Taken in the Australia exhibit June 2019 at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Yes, I would agree with Ducula bicolor - not a species that actually occurs in Australia! Formerly it was considered to exist in Australia - but the species was split and the Australian bird is now D. spilorrhoa, the Torresian Imperial Pigeon. The Torresian can be distinguished from the true Pied by the black spotted undertail coverts, which are pure white in Pied, bill colour (bluish in Torresian, yellow in Pied) and overall plumage colouration (slightly yellowish in Pied, pure white in Torresian)
 

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Device
Canon Canon EOS REBEL T5i
Aperture
ƒ/7.1
Focal length
300.0 mm
Exposure time
1/500 second(s)
ISO
800
Flash
Off, did not fire
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C9C37E42-6211-441E-97A4-66AE67439401.jpeg
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6 MB
Date taken
Sat, 22 June 2019 1:53 PM
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5184px x 3456px

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