emerald dove

From archives. A chance shot - she just flew in and landed very close. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Emerald Dove

The pure white shoulder patch shows that this is a male Emerald Pigeon,whereas the shoulder spot on a female is almost non existing or rather dirty off-white.This bird was captured at the edge of vine scrub type rainforest,near our waterhole.

This bird was either dust- or sun-bathing on a dirt road.

A species with large range throughout South East Asia, the Emerald Dove can be seen walking along the forest floor. This is a juvenile. More Hong Kong birding on: http://matthewkwanbirding.blogspot.hk/

The common dove on Lord Howe Island. Apparently not a separate subspecies.

An Emerald Dove. Sighting one is not easy. Imaging this shy bird amidst the dense moist deciduous woodland takes some effort. Processing this 1000 ISO shot was painful- and it had given only one shot! At the end of it all, a satisfying exercise.

A very common but skittish bird to shoot has been waiting for almost a year to get a decent shot.

Emerald Doves are small terrestial doves,found from SE.Asia to Australia.This is a male.photographed drinking at a small waterhole in dense rainforest

Somehow this fella is quite tame and allow me to get quite close to him. Probably he is busy looking for food.

this is a shy bird and difficult to get close to. The white line in the image is a spider web it tricked me for a while I thought it was something on the sensor and I might be in Doctor Singh's position - plenty of birds and no camera

A common bird here, seen preening itself.

At last got this bird while perching on a branch!