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Australia has a rich array of pigeons and doves, and this one -- the wompoo, or subperb fruit-dove -- is among the largest and most colorful. It is a fruit-eating rainforest and wet-forest bird found along the eastern coast. The photo at upper right, although of poor quality, shows one of these birds eating a quandong fruit. They swallow even these rather large fruits whole, and are a major factor in distributing the seeds of rainforest trees. I took the photos on the Atherton Tableleands and in nearby Cape Tribulation National Park in far-north Queensland. |
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