Bruce's green pigeon
| Bruce's green pigeon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Treron |
| Species: | T. waalia
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| Binomial name | |
| Treron waalia (Meyer, 1793)
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Bruce's Green Pigeon, feeding. Djibouti, 2013
B'sG.P., Djibouti, Foret du Day. 2013.
Bruce's green pigeon (Treron waalia), also known as the yellow-bellied fruit pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Yemen. It is a frugivore bird species that specialises on eating the fruits of a single species of fig tree, Ficus platphylla.[2]
Description[]
Despite its name, the Bruce's green pigeon is not green but is grey with a light yellow breast instead.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Treron waalia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22691212A93306231. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691212A93306231.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Kissling, WD; Rahbek, C; Böhning-Gaese, K (2007). "Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness". Proc. Biol. Sci. 274 (1611): 799–808. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0311. PMC 2093978. PMID 17251107.
- Kissling, WD; Rahbek, C; Böhning-Gaese, K (2007). "Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness". Proc. Biol. Sci. 274 (1611): 799–808. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0311. PMC 2093978. PMID 17251107.
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