brown cuckoo-dove

The pretty Brown Cuckoo-Dove made a return visit, I'd first seen him here at this forest waterhole on my first day out with Hans. He really seems to tone in well with the forest floor, doesn't he. It's the only cuckoo-dove to be found in Australia.

.... well he's a bit big for that, and such an attractive guy too, I thought. .... and a Lifer of course. A very nice looking bird this one, but is he a cuckoo or a dove LOL

This Brown Cuckoo-Dove absorbing the sun with raised wing ,was one of 5 species of doves yesterday doing this.

This is an adult male Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Another shot from the waterhole taken at the beginning of the year

A male Brown Cuckoo-Dove in a tree near our waterhole

Still very quiet at the waterhole but got this Brown Cuckoo-Dove taking a drink this morning.This is an adult male.

I love my brown cuckoo-doves! He has recently returned to my garden... perhaps they both disappeared a while to nest, but he seems to be alone for the moment.

I had noticed the beautiful colored eyes of these birds but wasn't able to get close enough with my D100 , so I switched over to my CP4500 on the scope for this photo.