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Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)

Crested Pigeon
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://tiny.jjharrison.com.au/t/YgJqEWUNNzNFpTR5) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Crested Pigeon

The crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for the far northern tropical areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the spinifex pigeon. The crested pigeon is the larger of the two species. The crested pigeon is sometimes referred to as a topknot pigeon, a common name shared with the reddish crested Lopholaimus antarcticus of Eastern Australia.

Source: Crested pigeon on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Crested Pigeon. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:36) via xeno-canto.org/496697, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (5:13) via xeno-canto.org/443064, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Australia · xeno-canto lists 39 recordings for this species in total.