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in 1982, who stated these processions as "one of the great ornithological experiences of the tropics." However, the birds were subject to mass slaughter in the 19th and early 20th
Centuries because they were thought of as pests or easy targets for recreational shooting. Populations dropped rapidly
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Anecdotal evidence from Weipa, Cape York
Peninsula in 1979 was that many birds migrating from Papua New Guinea were shot and pickled as provisions for the merchant shipping fleets moving through the Torres Strait. The population of birds visiting Weipa in the 1980s was so low that the birds
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Australia, where there are now an estimated 30,000. The species remains locally fairly common in parts of its range, and is therefore considered to be of
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distinctive call was heard but sightings at that time were rare. The population in Weipa today is thriving as flocks feed voraciously twice daily on
Carpentaria Palms in suburban back yards from August each year.
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and lays a single white egg, which hatches within 26 to 28 days. The squab fledges after another three weeks. In
Australia they breed between August and January in
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under the pied imperial pigeon, but it has black spotting to the undertail coverts and a greenish-yellow bill similar to the
Torresian imperial pigeon. However,
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