Common Bronzewing
Phaps chalcoptera(Latham, J, 1790)
English (US) Common Bronzewing
The Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) 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: Australia including TasmaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phaps chalcoptera
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Common Bronzewing
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Columba chalcoptera
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
- Type locality
- Norfolk Island, error, restricted to Sydney, New South Wales by Mathews, Man. Bds. Austr., 1921, p. 251.
- Original description
- Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 2 p.604
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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