Asa Branca

Description:

This kind of pidgeon has a beautiful color, especially the white lines bordering its feathers. When it's wings are closed, it looks like some kind of armor. It has a unique vocalizing, active all day long. They were really sneaky and you could always listen to then somewhere around, but never having a chance to spot them. After hours we found then drinking water close to a small lake. Then we could see them flying around the farm area all the time. Dunno why, but one of them has yellow eyes, and the other red eyes.

Habitat:

It was found near the borders of tropical forest, also in more open areas.

Notes:

It gives the name of a very famous song in Brasil, called Asa Branca, by Luiz Gonzaga. He states that, with the dry season, even this bird flew away from the Sertao, a semi-arid area in the northeast of Brasil, and so would do the guy, leaving his wife behind.