Other Scientific Names
Columba plumbea [BirdLife International (2004)], Columba plumbea [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Columba plumbea [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Plumbeous Pigeon (Patagioenas plumbea) [XC412520]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Rio Bigal Biological Reserve, Orellana, Ecuador (call, song)
Plumbeous Pigeon (Patagioenas plumbea) [XC856373]
by Richard E. Webster from Blumenau, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Forms a species group with Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea), Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris) and Dusky Pigeon (Patagioenas goodsoni) and all have very similar songs distinct from other New World Columba. Sometimes placed in a subgenus Oenoenas. Some taxonomic confusion with Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea) in past.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
delicata (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902) - Eastern Colombia through western and southern Venezuela and the Guianas to northern Brazil, and south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru to northern and eastern Bolivia.
chapmani (Ridgway, 1916) - North-western Ecuador.
pallescens (Snethlage, E, 1908) - Southern tributaries of Amazon from R Purús to Pará.
baeri (Hellmayr, 1908) - Goiás and north-western Minas Gerais, central Brazil.
plumbea Vieillot, 1818 - North-eastern and eastern Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil.
bogotensis (von Berlepsch & Leverkühn, 1890) - Northern end of western Andes of Colombia south to Amazonian Brazil and northern and eastern Bolivia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea).
wallacei (Chubb, C, 1918) - Guianas (and easternmost Venezuela?) and central Amazonian Brazil, north of the Amazon west to the Rio Negro.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet