With the Fruit-dove records in Victoria, it appears they are mostly in autumn/winter and are therefore probably some form of post breeding dispersal?
Alternatively while hanging out in a fig tree up the coast they may have been talked into a road trip down south by a fast talking Spangled Drongo…
Sydney often appears to have juvenile Fruit Dove records in autumn/winter such as the one noted in May in Birdline where they must be overwhelmed by the lights of the big city and collide wth house windows.
Tim
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