Western Crowned Pigeon
Goura cristata(Pallas, PS, 1764)
English (US) Western Crowned Pigeon
The Western Crowned Pigeon (Goura cristata) 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: northwestern New Guinea (Bird's Head Peninsula and Bird's Neck), including Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Goura cristata
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Western Crowned Pigeon
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1764)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Columba cristata
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1764)
- Type locality
- Banda, error; Fak-fak on the Onin Peninsula fixed as type locality by Stresemann and Paludan, Nov. Zool., 38, 1932, p. 186.
- Original description
- Adumbratiunculæ. Avium variarum praecedenti elencho insertarum, sed quæ in Systemate Naturæ Illustr. Linnæi nondum extant p.2 no.78
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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