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Streptopelia lugens
A cooing dusky turtle dove, a dove found only in Africa and the Arabic peninsula, spotted here in a public garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Distribution: SE Sudan, W & SE Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia to Uganda, patchily SW through mountains of Rift Valley to N Malawi, and SE through Kenya highlands to NE Tanzania; also SW Arabic peninsula
Found on the same tree as http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/580...
Spotted on Oct 26, 2009
Submitted on Jun 1, 2011
6 Comments
very pretty ,danielle~
want to see on my own eyes :)
Thank you Elsa!
Just saw this, what a stunning portrait!
CherreyMae :-)
...turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree....