Other Scientific Names
Columba fasciata [BirdLife International (2004)], Columba fasciata [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Columba fasciata [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Other Names (World)
Northern Band-tailed Pigeon, Band-tailed Pigeon, White-collared Pigeon, Blue Pigeon
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 (2010).
Proposed subspecies tucumana of north-western Argentina invalid. Subspecies albilinea sometimes considered a separate species, incorporating crissalis and roraimae.
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
fasciata Say, 1823 - South-western British Columbia (including Vancouver I) south through western USA (Washington, California, New Mexico, western Texas) and most of Mexico to Guatemala, Honduras and north-central Nicaragua.
vioscae (Brewster, 1888) - Mountains of extreme southern tip of Baja California.
letonai Dickey and van Rossem, 1926 - Border of Honduras and El Salvador, including Volcán de San Miguel.
parva Griscom, 1935 - Northern Nicaragua.
crissalis (Salvadori, 1893) - Costa Rica and western Panama.
roraimae (Chapman, 1929) - Venezuela, known only from Mt Roraima, on border with Guyana.
albilinea (Bonaparte, 1854) - Colombia (Andes, Santa Marta Mts, Sierra de Perijá), northern and southern Venezuela, Trinidad and adjacent north-western Brazil (Roraima), south through Andes of Ecuador, Peru and central Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, western Santa Cruz) to north-western Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca and Tucumán). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Southern Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas albilinea).
monilis (Vigors, 1839) - South-eastern Alaska and western Canada to western USA.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet