Yellow-legged Pigeon
Columba pallidiceps(Ramsay, EP, 1878)
English (US) Yellow-legged Pigeon
The Yellow-legged Pigeon (Columba pallidiceps) 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: Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Columba pallidiceps
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Yellow-legged Pigeon
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1878)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ianthaenas pallidiceps
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1878)
- Type locality
- Duke of York Islands.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 p.248
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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