This page is a list of the genera of pigeons and doves (the family Columbidae), which are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution. The group has 310 living species.[1][2][3] Extinct species assignment follows the Mikko's Phylogeny Archive[4] and Paleofile.com websites.[5] Classification is based on the work by John Boyd.[6]
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^IOC World Bird List v6.3 [1]. "IOC Names File Plus 6.3". Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^Çınar, Ümüt (November 2015). "02 → Gᴀʟʟᴏᴀɴsᴇʀᴀᴇ : Gᴀʟʟɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs". English Names of Birds. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Aves [Avialae]– basal birds". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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^Boyd, John (2007). "COLUMBEA: Mirandornithes, Columbimorphae". John Boyd's website. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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This page is a listof the generaofpigeons and doves (the family Columbidae), which are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution. The group...
recognizes 352 species in family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves. They are distributed among 50 genera. This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic...
to as the "pigeon", although this is the wild form of the bird; the pigeons most familiar to people are the domesticated form of the wild rock dove. The...
mass of flying, easily hit pigeons. Among the game birds, passenger pigeons were second only to the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) in terms of importance...
known as bronzewing pigeons. This species is listed under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List category of "least concern"....
though the pigeons initially had no natural predators, one mating pair must defend their territory from other mating pairs). Pink pigeons generally mate...
of pigeons led to significant use of homing pigeons for communication, including war pigeons, such as the 32 pigeons who were awarded the Dickin Medal...
Genus Urocolius Pigeons and doves Family Columbidae Genus Alectroenas - blue pigeons Genus Alopecoenas Genus Caloenas - Nicobar pigeon Genus Chalcophaps...
The blue pigeons are a genus, Alectroenas, of birds in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. They are native to islands in the western Indian Ocean....
previously described by Brisson. One of these was the green imperial pigeon which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included...
"Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 February 2020. "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List"...
other pigeons in Europe. The three western European Columba pigeons, though alike, have very distinctive characteristics. The common wood pigeon may be...
Treron is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae. Its members are commonly called green pigeons. The genus is distributed across Asia and Africa...
small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Western Australia where it has established itself in the wild after...
threatened or vulnerable member of the bird family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons. It breeds over a wide area of the south western Palearctic including...
his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other doves and pigeons in the genus Columba and coined...
The topknot pigeon is sister taxon to a lineage that gave rise to the mountain pigeons (Gymnophaps) of New Guinea, the common ancestor of both diverged...
Ogasawara Islands, c. 1890) A subspecies of the nankeen night heron. Sandgrouse Pigeons, doves and dodos Madeiran wood pigeon, Columba palumbus maderensis (Madeira...
known as the rock pigeons, is a small genus of doves in the family Columbidae native to Australia, and similar to bronzewing pigeons. The genus was introduced...
thick-billed green pigeons; they are frugivorous, with minor deviations Virtually all of Ptilinopini: All of the imperial pigeons (Ducula) are usually...
Classification of Birds. Vol. 2. London: John Taylor. p. 348. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version...
a listof widely known trees and shrubs. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and...
(2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 March 2020. Baker, ECS (1928). The Fauna of British...
features of the leg bones, otherwise known only in pigeons. Strickland and Melville established that the dodo was anatomically similar to pigeons in many...
squirrel species have shifted almost entirely to a diet of insects. Squirrels, like pigeons and other fauna, are synanthropes, in that they benefit and...
that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Genetically within the family ofpigeons and doves, it was most closely...
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