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The Ryukyu wood pigeon (Columba jouyi), otherwise known as the silver-banded or silver-crescented pigeon is an extinct species of bird in the Columba genus in the family Columbidae. This wood pigeon was endemic to the Laurel forest habitat.
Ryukyu wood pigeon; S. Slaty-legged crake This page was last edited on 6 November 2021, at 09:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Columba species are mostly termed "pigeons", and in many cases "wood pigeons", but some (including the type species of the genus), are termed "doves". The rock dove ( C. livia ) has given rise to the majority of domesticated pigeon breeds, such as the racing pigeon and the fantail pigeon , some of which have become feral.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Greece. The avifauna of Greece included a total of 478 species according to the Hellenic Rarities Committee of the Hellenic Ornithological Society (Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρεία) with supplemental additions from Avibase as of May 2023.
Silvery pigeon: Columba argentina Bonaparte, 1855 (possibly extinct) OR: western Malaysia: 25: Andaman wood pigeon: Columba palumboides (Hume, 1873) OR: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: 26: Japanese wood pigeon: Columba janthina Temminck, 1830: EU: East China Sea: 27: Bonin wood pigeon: Columba versicolor Kittlitz, 1832 (extinct) EU: Bonin Islands ...
The Ryukyu green pigeon (Treron permagnus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.It is endemic to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan.It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Taiwan green pigeon (T. formosae), but phylogenetic evidence indicates that both are distinct species, and it has thus been split by the IUCN Red List, BirdLife International, and the International Ornithologists ...
A subspecies of the common wood pigeon. Lord Howe pigeon, Columba vitiensis godmanae (Lord Howe Island, Southwest Pacific, 1853) This subspecies of the metallic pigeon was last recorded in 1853 and almost certainly became extinct by 1869. Tongan metallic pigeon, Columba vitiensis ssp. (Vavaʻu, Tonga, late 18th century?)
Common wood pigeon, endemic to Europe and western Asia; Columba (bird), any "Old World" pigeon Andaman wood pigeon (C. palumboides) of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Ashy wood pigeon (C. pulchricollis) of South and Southeast Asia; Japanese wood pigeon (C. janthina) of East Asia; Nilgiri wood pigeon (C. elphinstonii) of southwestern India