Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
Columba elphinstonii(Sykes, WH, 1832)
English (US) Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
The Nilgiri Wood Pigeon (Columba elphinstonii) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Columbidae (Doves and Pigeons) in the order Columbiformes.
Range: southwestern India (Western Ghats)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Columba elphinstonii
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
- Described by
- (Sykes, WH, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ptilinopus Elphinstonii
- Described by
- (Sykes, WH, 1832)
- Type locality
- The Ghauts of Deccan.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2, no.23 p.149
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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