Yellow-legged pigeon

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Yellow-legged pigeon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Columba
Species:
C. pallidiceps
Binomial name
Columba pallidiceps
(Ramsay, EP, 1878)

The yellow-legged pigeon (Columba pallidiceps) is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was formerly classified as Endangered by the IUCN. [2] But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed; consequently, it was downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008. [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Columba pallidiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22690226A131925376. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22690226A131925376.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. BLI (2004)
  3. BLI (2008)

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