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Crested Pigeon № 36

Crested Pigeon

Ocyphaps lophotes

That whistle on take-off is not a call, it is the wings: one flight feather is modified to sound the alarm. The crest is permanently startled.

Photo · Martin Rady · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Peter Boesman · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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