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 LC    Black-billed Cuckoo-dove* Id (Atlas):
    Macropygia nigrirostris

Description (10)
Image of Black-billed Cuckoo-dove
 

Other Names (World)
Black-billed Cuckoo-Dove, Bar-tailed Cuckoo-dove, Lesser Bar-tailed Cuckoo-dove, Lesser Black-billed Cuckoo-dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
29 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvadori, 1875

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

New Guinea, offshore islands of Yapen and Karkar, larger islands of Bismarck Archipelago and Lihir Is, and D'Entrecasteaux Is (Goodenough, Fergusson).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia nigrirostris) [XC36373]
     by Frank Lambert from 1 km N 'Warili Lodge', below Tari Gap, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (song)

 
Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia nigrirostris) [XC174313]
     by Niels Krabbe from near Kumul Lodge, Enga province, Papua New Guinea (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia mackinlayi) and Little Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Black-billed Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia nigrirostris) - 10 files


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