Mountain Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Other Names (World)
Mountain Imperial-Pigeon, Hodgson's Imperial-pigeon, Jerdon's Imperial-pigeon, Bronze-backed Imperial-pigeon, Grey-headed Imperial-pigeon(!), Gray-headed Imperial-pigeon(!), Band-tailed Imperial-pigeon, Mountain Imperial Pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
46 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Raffles, 1822)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, mangroves. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Bhutan (B), Brunei Darussalam (B), Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Indonesia (B), Laos (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

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 (46)...)

Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia) [XC359717]
by Marc Anderson from Mount Kinabalu lower slopes, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia (song)

Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia) [XC19775]
by David Edwards from Kaeng Krachan, Thailand (?)

Subspecies
Probably forms a superspecies with Dark-backed Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula lacernulata) and Timor Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula cineracea), although ranges of Mountain Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula badia) and Dark-backed Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula lacernulata) overlap in western Java.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

cuprea (Jerdon, 1840) - Western Ghats (south-western India) from Goa and north-western Karnataka south to Kerala. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Nilgiri Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula cuprea).
insignis Hodgson, 1836 - Western Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan east to Khasia Hills and R Brahmaputra.
griseicapilla Walden, 1875 - Myanmar (to northern Tennasserim) and Thailand east to south-central China (south-western Yunnan, Hainan), and south to Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
badia (Raffles, 1822) - Southern Tenasserim and Mergui Archipelago south through Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Borneo and western Java.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Mountain Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula badia) - 10 files

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