Blue-spotted Wood Dove
Turtur afer(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Blue-spotted Wood Dove
The Blue-spotted Wood Dove (Turtur afer) 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: sub-Saharan Africa, Zanzibar, and Pemba IslandRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Turtur afer
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Columba afra
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.284
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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