Chestnut-quilled rock-pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis)

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Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Petrophassa (Petrophassa); Family Pigeons (Columbidae)
General:The chestnut-quilled rock pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis) is a dark sooty brown pigeon with a distinctive bright chestnut patch on its wing visible in flight. It has distinctive pale lines across its face curving above and below its eye.^[2][3] A species of bird in the family Columbidae, it is very similar in behaviour and habitat to the white-quilled rock pigeon but it is only found on rocky escarpments in western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.^[2] [more]