Bruce's Green-pigeon (Treron waalia)

Other Names (World)
Bruce's Green-Pigeon, Yellow-bellied Green-pigeon, Bruce's Green Pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
31 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Meyer, 1793)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From 600 - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B).

Introduced to Kuwait (E).

Southern Mauritania and Senegambia east through Sahel zone to Eritrea and northern Somalia; also Socotra, Yemen, south-western Saudi Arabia and extreme western Oman (Dhofar).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Bruce's Green Pigeon (Treron waalia) [XC371220]
by Matthias Feuersenger from Wadi Darbat, Dhofar, Oman (call)

Bruce's Green Pigeon (Treron waalia) [XC371212]
by Matthias Feuersenger from Wadi Darbat, Dhofar, Oman (call)

Subspecies
A member of the African species-group of green-pigeons, but apparently most closely allied to Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon (Treron phoenicopterus) of southern Asia.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bruces Green-pigeon (Treron waalia) - 10 files

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