Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon*
Id (Atlas):
Columba iriditorques
Description (10 )
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon
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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.
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)... )
Listen to XC246562
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques ) [XC246562 ]
by Bram Vogels from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (song)
Listen to XC246125
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques ) [XC246125 ]
by Brendan Sloan from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (call, 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:
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