Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia nigrirostrisSalvadori, AT, 1876
English (US) Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove
The Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia nigrirostris) 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: New Guinea, including D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea), and Bismarck ArchipelagoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Macropygia nigrirostris
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove
- Described by
- Salvadori, AT, 1876
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Salvadori, AT, 1876
- Type locality
- Arfak and Warbusi.
- Original description
- Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 7(1875) p.972
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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