Pigeons and Doves of Australia. A Documentary

Filming wild birds is always a challenge. To catch the metallic glow of a pigeon as the wings turn in the sun is often more luck than patience. This video is an update to "Columbidae of Australia" with more video shots and species than before.

[@Saphkey]

Wow! I didn't know Australia had that much diversity in doves

[@manasseskamau5327]

Can't understand why such a video has so few likes, even fewer comments. It's so splendid.

[@plumesofoz]

thanks

[@SupernovaRemodeling]

Because of the music

[@FollowThomas]

Australian pigeons and doves look awesome 😎

[@mervinarul4427]

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[@colh3127]

Wonderful stuff and such underrated birds! Your channel deserves way more love and attention. Keep it up!

[@dianaholvik2554]

Fabulous video. I love how many beautiful doves and pigeons Australia has. I'm actually an ex-pat Kiwi now living in Canada (for many decades), and have never been to Australia. I think God had a "funny" day when He created Australian mammals, but He sure went all out on beautiful birds. Thank you for this video. I love your indepth explanations of the genus and species names. The one thing I'd suggest, is maybe a little less plinkety music with the video. But the videography and pictures are beautiful. and the sounds of Aussie birds in the background, and all the amazing info.

[@josecruzjr.5863]

Beatiful wild pigeons you have there in Australia. They are larger and healthy propagators too of fruit seeds. Thank you.❤

[@eliseolopez2790]

Australia is very peacefully amazing

[@alumycrick2911]

All my life I've been seeing crested pigeons and white headed pigeons in the environment here in north-eastern New south Wales. I think I've learned more about them in the last half hour than in all that time previously.

[@Specolution]

Such a good ascent and a good film, you get my like.

[@susanweston-browne5787]

These beautiful pigeons& doves are so, so super. I cannot add anyrhing to what is said in other comments . I will save these pictures. This country is home to incredible creatures

[@lkbpigeons]

Nice video

[@hermanbear4635]

So beutiful love your doves got some in my aviery in South Africa❤

[@plumesofoz]

Thanks for the comment.

[@jaimeanaya4153]

Yo no tengo palabras para describir el pincel de la mano de Dios echo aves,hermozas,sus colores,formas,expreciones,maravillozas,las odservo aqui en nortweat Georgia Usa serca de Jhons mountain wildlife reservation..I saw cardenals,honeybirds,crow,americans robins..etc,pero Australia es otro nivel,saludos a la tierra de el koala,kukaburra,emus,cakatuas..God Bless you..

[@seanbayley7452]

Amen brother

[@coenvantuijl3011]

This is an amazing informative video.

[@belindanortman1649]

I love astrailian voices

[@seanbayley7452]

They are great for naration

[@user-px6xc3pf8k]

Love to see a video on Quail. 😊

[@faisalmehmoodpigeons2841]

Wow beautifull

[@slappycool1262]

Wonderful Narrations! Please do a Video on Quail & Pheasant of Australia. No documentary as such yet seems to exist.

[@marievanansouce3222]

Thank you for your documentry. I always seen some species in Paris (Vincennes pet show). Amazing.

[@plumesofoz]

TY

[@alanahjade27]

Another amazing video!!

[@mrezaworld1456]

Amazing documentry, i love it.

[@samueldasnher3482]

Awesome Video, My Favorite though, has to be the SPINEFEX Pigeon, Wonder if they Make Good Pet Aviary Birds?

[@motherlandbot6837]

A friend in the US kept and bred Spinifex Pigeons (which in North America are known as Australian Plumed Doves!) for many years. US captive stocks of these and many other wild columbiform birds are very badly inbred, but his were still fairly vigorous and fertile. Ironically, these and many other pigeons even if parent reared, can become tamer in a cage (minimum of a metre in length) than in an aviary. As they are mainly terrestrial animals of areas with few trees, enclosure height is less important, and as you know, a tall aviary or cage can give startled birds the space to gain sufficient momentum to severely injure themselves in panicked flight. When I lived in Singapore and Malaysia, I learned that wild dove and pigeon keepers routinely tamed birds by keeping them in low cages with padded tops. These cages were covered with white cloth to allow light but prevent the birds from seeing people nearby. Doves and pigeons were kept individually in taming cages, both to prevent injuries from fighting where a subordinate cannot escape from a bully, and because if one bird in a group panics, the others will follow suit. After the bird settles in, the cloth is gradually raised to allow the captive an increasingly unobstructed view of people nearby. Like the process of wing clipping as an aid to taming birds, this procedure prevents birds from fleeing approaching or nearby people, and thus forces them to habituate to human presence. However, it accomplishes this goal in a more protracted but less stressful manner than wing clipping or pinioning. It's essential to avoid grabbing or netting doves and pigeons that are tamed this way, or which you wish yo tame, as much as possible. They are prey animals whose only defenses are concealment and escape, and are innately predisposed to fear and remember rough handling and netting. How sad that so many aviary keepers don't understand this! My friend's Spinifex Pigeons bred fairly reliably even in metre long cages after taming, and were very calm even when strangers approached closely. Tamed this way, they retained much of their tameness when moved to an aviary, though they were consistently shyer when people were actually inside the aviary. These captive Spinifex Pigeons were less reliable as parents than Crested Pigeons (which in captivity are usually among the best parents of wild pigeons). My friend's Cresteds also became very tame, but would breed only in an aviary. You can of course train tame doves and pigeons into some semblance of "friendliness" by offering them occasional treats by hand, but unlike domestic Ringnecks and Rock Pigeons, which sometimes bond readily with people as parent reared adults, captive bred wild doves and pigeons usually require socialization (but not hand rearing from infancy) while they are still in juvenile plumage to bond with people. Also socialization with people means that they will react to people as members of their own species. This means that like fully Human socialized parrots, breeding males in.particular may become aggressive rather than friendly, and both males and females will often direct sexual as well as general social behavior towards people.

[@maggiewidows2218]

Nooooo!

[@madamepigeon]

GREAT!!👍🏼👍🏼

[@jean-claudeharson6272]

Tres bon ,il n'y.a pas assez de documents de ce type .pour les 'ecologistes' , qu'ils sachent que le "pigeon" va tres bien avec les petit pois,ainsi est faite la nature.

[@jmaczuga]

Excellent video... How many of these birds are kept in captivity at zoos and in private bird collections?

[@filologo1]

I enjoyed the video and the music. Thank you! By the way, Who plays this music?

[@Devo491]

Great content! A thumbnail of the distribution of each species would improve it further.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

I'd agree with that. Also lowering (or better still leaving off) the Muzak obscuring the natural bush sounds.

[@hernanruiz6683]

Amazing video, I love birds 🐦❤

[@niamtxiv]

❤❤❤ i love this

[@stevenrowson4339]

Fascinating, thank you

[@thedragonsterritory2332]

Wonderful video!!

[@renzki6645]

We have zebra dove here in my country Philippines, the peaceful dove, diamond dove can buy here in thebpetshop,

[@user-et9mc6gv3y]

You can buy doves in a barbershop? Where do they live

[@subhanullah7155]

Amazing

[@sureshcsharma]

Informative.

[@gazacitywaterford1271]

I would love to have two

[@mattmatty4670]

Cool thanks

[@saleemakhter6410]

Vare nice

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

Can you make pigeon dove documentaries for the other continents?

[@seanbayley7452]

I'd like to see that as well

[@plumesofoz]

Hard to travel at the moment. if you do it please let me know. I would like to see other Columbiforms

[@auliajafirjafir3323]

Super

[@ammonir9206]

Hello where are you from?

[@greathornedowl1783]

Australia

[@madenaraputra6887]

9:01 this is spotting doves or called "Tekukur"

[@zulfiqaralishaheen7760]

💞💞💞

[@jessicap.bergvall4475]

9:45

[@ezyroller]

Spotted doves are in plague proportions in Melbourne. I had one that had made my place its territory and shat everywhere, in addition to non stop cooing that was quite loud. Finally got my slingshot aim right the other day... see ya pigeon.

[@lkbpigeons]

Nice video