Flock Bronzewing (2/13)

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

Phaps histrionica  

Male and female Flock Bronzewing in flight.

On a trip of over five thousand kilometres through outback Australia this was the only occasion we saw Flock Bronzewings, but what a sighting!

And the marvellous thing was that we were only travelling that particular track after finding the route we intended to travel into the Diamantina National Park was closed.

We had to back-track seventy kilometres but as a result had great sightings of Flock Bronzewings, Letter-winged Kites and an eye-level view of a Wedge-tailed Eagles' nest complete with the ugliest kids you ever saw.