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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Australian Turtledove

Australian turtledove (Geopelia humeralis) is native to Australia animal. Australian turtledove is protected by National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. They include a pigeon-sized, their size varies between 26-30 cm (10.4 to 12 inches). They has distinctive and melodious voice that sounding like "cook-a-wook "or" coolicoo ".

The Australian turtledoves are very graceful, with beautiful eyes circled in a strong orange color, in addition to sound good, they also having beautiful fur.

Turtledove bird known for its uniqueness of his voice. Fans come from all walks of society. However, australian turtledoves are different, other than soft-spoken, their fur color is quite beautiful. So hobbyists interested to collecting, even want to get of their offspring of intercross result with other types.

White speckled. The shape and size smaller than usual turtledove, and a gray body color. Her eyes circled in striking orange color, and feather wings decorated with the white spots a little rough, there are different with the African turtledove who having soft white spots.

Other peculiarity of this turtledove is they has attractive appearance and soft-spoken, especially the male. Usually the male is always showing off his wing feathers in front of the female, to steal the attention of the female. The female will then approach him, then both attracted to each other.

Particularity the nature and pattern of the soft fur color makes hobbyists interested to collecting this Australian turtledove.

Recognize them. In the match of turtledove, you need to know and understand its properties. For example, the sound quality, the beauty of his feathers, and body shape. It is very important, if their mother are good quality, likely that his children would also be good turtledove. Moreover, if their parent is the champion turtledove, almost certainly the offspring can be the champion.

Many hobbyists who tried to make intercross of gray Australian turtledove with bangkok and African turtledove. This effort is expected to generate turtledove feather color pattern and good sound.

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