Topknot Pigeons, not Crested Pigeons, were hunted well into the 1970s. I remember finding spent shotgun shells on the ground at Mungo Brush, Myall Lakes National Park, many years back. It was a National Park and the Topknot Pigeon was a protected species but that didn’t stop some people. They mean Topknot Pigeon without a doubt. That species provides more ‘sport’ darting and weaving in and out of the palm trees in flocks. The Crested Pigeon would be a ‘sitting duck’, I mean a ‘sitting pigeon’.
Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Wildlife Guide Coutts Crossing NSW 2460 02 66493153 0429601960
