The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Mesites, Pigeons And Sandgrouse

TeaLovingDave said:
Blue-headed Quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala)

Endemic to Cuba.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Just uploaded 2 photo's of this species in the "Animal at Shows" Gallery thinking I would add another species new to the Gallery but by checking I found out that @Mo Hassan had already uploaded a photo of the species in April this year. So now we have 3 photo's of this Endangered species :).
I made my photos yesterday at a Bird market in the Netherlands and althrough the species is Endangered and rare at zoos ( ZTL lists 6 collections in Europe currently keeping it ) in the privat hobby the species seems to do quite well and at least 2 different breeders offered a total of about 12 birds for sell on this market !
BTW : took care for the species myself in the mid-1980s at Walsrode :)

Photo uploaded by @Mo Hassan :
Blue-headed quail-dove

Blue-headed quail-dove

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Starnoenas cyanocephala

and the 2 photos I just uploaded :
Blue-headed quail-dove

Blue-headed quail-dove

Sept. 10 2022 - Avi-Markt - 's Hertogenbosch - the Netherlands

Blue-headed quial-dove

Blue-headed quial-dove

Sept. 10 2022 - Avi-Markt - 's Hertogenbosch - the Netherlands
 
6 zoos in Europe?!?!?!?!?! I tought it was totally absent from captivity!!!!! IThey must be all recent acquisitions!! It's one of my most favourite pigeon species and I would love to substitute my taxidermy photo for an alive photo :-)
 
Kakapo said:
6 zoos in Europe?!?!?!?!?! I tought it was totally absent from captivity!!!!! IThey must be all recent acquisitions!! It's one of my most favourite pigeon species and I would love to substitute my taxidermy photo for an alive photo :)
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Yes they are indeed very recent acquisitions. Most of the zoos obtained their birds 2021 ( Plzen, Cleres, Cologne and Warsaw ), the other two ( Leipzig and Zürich ) obtained them this year. The sourch from where these birds came is however unknown to me. Hopefully they will cooperate in some kind of breeding-programm because the species has been kept also in the past in several zoos but disapeared then again.
 
Is there really no photos of double-banded sandgrouse? They're fairly easy to see in Kruger national park. I have a photo somewhere that I'll have a rummage for and upload.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Petrophassa

White-quilled Rock-pigeon (Petrophassa albipennis)

The range of this species is restricted to north-central Australia, roughly corresponding to northeast Western Australia and adjacent portions of northwest Northern Territory.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. a. albipennis
P. a. boothi

Photo by @Hix

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Where was this photo taken?
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Silver-tipped Imperial-pigeon (Ducula luctuosa)

Endemic to Sulawesi and surrounding small islands and islets.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Vision

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Found a photo which gives a better view of the species althrough the photo is far from perfect...
Just uploaded it in the Weltvogelpark Walsrode Gallery were I took care for a single specimen in the period 1986 - 1989 :

Silver-tipped imperial pigeon

Silver-tipped imperial pigeon

Somewhere around 1988
 
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