New Zealand Pigeon

Description:

The New Zealand Pigeon is a large, common pigeon that eat mostly fruit. They're a blue-green colour, with a purple-bronze iridescence on the neck, mantle and coverts of the wings. Maori call it Kereru.

Habitat:

The New Zealand inhabit a wide variety of forest types: podocarp-broadleaf forest, beech forest, second growth native forest regenerating after logging, small forest remnants, and exotic plantations (especially those with an understorey and/or stream-sides of native shrubs and trees). They also occur in farmland shelterbelts, urban parks, and rural and suburban gardens.

Notes:

They're loud and clumsy. (￢з￢)