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The pigeon family is a group of stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a worldwide distribution. [2] The white-headed pigeon is in the genus Columba, the same as the Rock dove (C. livia) from which the domestic pigeon is derived. [3] It has no subspecies. [4]
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes 352 species in family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.They are distributed among 50 genera. This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
The white-crowned pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) is a fruit and seed-eating species of bird in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. It is found primarily in the Caribbean . John James Audubon painted these pigeons, including the watercolour painting in his work, Birds of America , published in the early 19th century.
This is an alphabetical list of pigeon breeds; these are exclusively breeds of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica). Other Columbidae species (e.g., the Barbary dove , Streptopelia risoria ) have been domesticated and developed into breeds, but these are generally simple colour variations of the plumage .
The three Western European Columba pigeons, common wood pigeon, stock dove and rock dove, though superficially alike, have very distinctive characteristics; the common wood pigeon may be identified at once by its larger size at 38–44.5 cm (15– 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and weight 300–615 g (10 + 5 ⁄ 8 – 21 + 3 ⁄ 4 oz), and the white on its ...
Black wood pigeon or Japanese wood pigeon, Columba janthina † Bonin wood pigeon, Columba versicolor – extinct (c. 1890) † Ryukyu wood pigeon, Columba jouyi – extinct (late 1930s) Metallic pigeon or white-throated pigeon, Columba vitiensis; White-headed pigeon, Columba leucomela; Yellow-legged pigeon, Columba pallidiceps
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White-headed fruit dove" is the official common name designated by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU). [6] Another name for the species is "Eugenie's fruit dove". [7] The white-headed fruit dove is one of over 50 species of pigeon in the fruit dove genus Ptilinopus, which is found throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania.