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Common
Bronzewing -
Phaps chalcoptera
Resident. Common.
Large, plump. Male has pale forehead, female has duller, greyer forehead.
Feed on ground, but wary and fly off with a clatter if approached.
Voice: deep, monotonous
'oom, oom, oom'.
Call
1: 'oom' call, with other small birds also calling
Photographs
and sounds courtesy Merilyn Browne.
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