Vik's Gallery:   Diamond Dove (1/2)

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

Geopelia cuneata  

The Diamond Dove is Australia's smallest pigeon and feeds entirely on the ground*.

This one is feeding by the road on Springvale Station leading into Diamantina National Park.

*Australian Birds Simply Classified, Donald and Molly Trounson, 4th Ed 2001, p44.