Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea)

Other Names (World)
Speckled Pigeon, Guinea Pigeon, Hackled Pigeon, Red-eyed Pigeon, African Rock-pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
32 - 35 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi (B), Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone (B), Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Yemen.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (56)...)

Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) [XC402276]
by Bernard BOUSQUET from Wassadougou, Tambacounda, Tambacounda, Senegal (call)

Speckled Pigeon (Columba) [XC855233]
by Andrew Spencer from Karatu, Arusha Region, Tanzania (song)

Subspecies
Related in some degree to both Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) and White-collared Pigeon (Columba albitorques).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

guinea Linnaeus, 1758 - Senegambia east to Ethiopia and north-western Somalia, south to Uganda, western Kenya and southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.
phaeonota Gray, GR, 1856 - South-western Angola east to north-eastern Zimbabwe and south to Cape Province (South Africa).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) - 10 files

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