The Wompoo bird

 

The largest and most colourful fruit dove of them all, the wompoo.

These birds almost never come to the ground, and usually will settle for weeks in just the one tree either in a pair or singly, as they have done this year at Seal Rocks.

Their head is a pale grey with a red eye and a red beak tipped with yellow. The breast and belly is purple, with their under-parts an egg-yolk yellow. Their wings are green on the outside and yellow underneath, and a broken line of pale yellow splotches decorates their green wing feathers.