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 LC    Western Bronze-naped Pigeon* Id (Atlas):
    Columba iriditorques

Description (10)
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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], Côte 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.
 
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) [XC744285]
     by Deville Tanguy from New Debiso, Bia, Western Region, Ghana (song)

 
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) [XC785904]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Gola Rainforest NP, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (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
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) - 10 files


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