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The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is a large, bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast and red irises.It is part of a genus of four unique, very large, ground-dwelling pigeons native to the New Guinea region, with the Victoria crowned pigeon measuring as the largest extant species of pigeon.
The crowned pigeons (Goura) are a genus of birds in the family Columbidae. It contains four large species of pigeon that are endemic to the island of New Guinea and a few surrounding islands. The species are extremely similar to each other in appearance, and occupy different regions of New Guinea.
The tribe Raphini: the thick-billed ground pigeon, [244] pheasant pigeon, [245] [246] tooth-billed pigeon, [247] [248] nicobar pigeon, [249] and crowned pigeons, [250] such as the Victoria crowned pigeon, [251] are all overwhelmingly herbivorous, though several may consume invertebrates in appreciable amounts
The western crowned pigeon was first described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas in 1764 and given the binomial name Columba cristata. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that the western crowned pigeon was most closely related to Sclater's crowned pigeon ( Goura sclaterii ).
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon was most closely related to the Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria). [6] Being tame and heavily hunted for its meat and plumes, Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Sclater's crowned pigeon; V. Victoria crowned pigeon; W. Western crowned pigeon This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 07:40 (UTC). Text is ...
In 2020, winter counts recorded more than 3,800 red-crowned cranes, including about 1,900 in Japan, more than 1,600 in Korea and about 350 in China. Vulnerable red-crowned crane chick ventures ...
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