Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques)

Other Names (World)
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Bronze-naped Pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
27 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cassin, 1856

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Sierra Leone, western Ivory Coast and southern Ghana through south-western Nigeria to north-western Angola, occupying whole of Congo Basin from southern Cameroon and western Congo east to south-western Uganda and south to central Zaire.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) [XC739598]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (song)

Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) [XC183260]
by Martin St-Michel from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei), Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) and Sao Tome Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba malherbii) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include iriditorques and malherbii as subpecies of Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei).

Forms a superspecies with Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) and Sao Tome Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba malherbii), and all may be conspecific. They are sometimes placed in a subgenus Turturoena.

No subspecies.

References
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