Bar-shouldered Dove

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Research Station, Lockhart River, CYPAL, FNE Qld IMG_8670 20220731 - inexpecta CLICK for one there the day before.

Notes: Upperparts mid-brown, each feather tipped black, Hindneck bright bronze scalloped black.
Plain whitish breast. Grey eye-ring (red-brown breeding), eye yellow w. narrow black rim.
Ssp inexpecta similar to nominate humeralis but pink wash to breast, white belly, undertail coverts.
Ssp hedlandi smaller, paler w. pink wash to underside. Voice: loud repeated cook-coo-woo. Noisy
wings, direct flight. Ground forager in open eucalypt forests, scrubby coastal vegetation.

Range from Morcombe^©(modified)

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9466 20200509 - inexpecta adult on right, older juvenile on left: still some
retaimed pale fringes.

Bird Lagoon, N NT IMG_7052 20160721 - inexpecta

Howard Springs Nature Park, N NT IMG_4259 20180729 - inexpecta

France Road, Wright's Creek, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_9389 20201018 - inexpecta

Broome Bird Observatory, NW WA IMG_2239 20180911 - hedlandi? may be out of range but does have the pale pink wash
to the underside. With Peaceful Dove.

James Price Point, NW WA IMG_3047 20180914 - hedlandi?

Property, Paul Mergur, Mount Ossa, E Qld IMG_6368 20220627 - humeralis

Myall Lakes NP, CE NSW IMG_9843 20170220 - humeralis CLICK for another view.

Balgal Beach, nr Townsville, N Qld IMG_1446 20180509 - humeralis juvenile: pale fringes to upper feathers.

Bird Lagoon, N NT MVI_7106 20160721 - inexpecta

Gunlom, Kakadu NP, NE NT MVI_2698 20180723 - inexpecta

Big Crystal Creek Camp, Paluma NP, NE Qld IMG_2680 20200817 - humeralis