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 LC    Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon* Id (Atlas):
    Columba delegorguei

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon, Bronze-naped Pigeon, Delegorgue's Pigeon, Crimson-winged Pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
27 cm

First Described (Guide)
Delegorgue, 1847

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (50)...)

 
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) [XC634167]
     by Derek Solomon from Unguja Ukuu (western part of Jozani NP_rarely visited_includes birds from just outside the forest), Tanzania (song)

 
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) [XC516850]
     by Louis A. Hansen from Suni camp, Chita Forest, southern Udzungwa Scarp, Tanzania (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 Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques) and Sao Tome Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba malherbii), and all may be conspecific. They are sometimes placed in a subgenus Turturoena.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • sharpei (Salvadori, 1893)   -  South-eastern Sudan through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania (including Zanzibar).
  • delegorguei Delegorgue, 1847   -  Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Mt Gorongoza) to South Africa (Transkei and eastern Griqualand to Natal and western Zululand).



References
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Files:
JPG files for Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) - 10 files


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