General description:
Pigeon with a prominent area of bare red skin around eye. General plumage mauvegrey to grey, darker on wings and tail. Sexes alike. Juvenile similar to adult, but paler and duller.
Conservation status:
Not Threatened.
Diagnostic description:
Pigeon with a prominent area of bare red skin around eye. General plumage mauvegrey to grey, darker on wings and tail. Sexes alike. Juvenile similar to adult, but paler and duller.
Behaviour:
Size:
Large pigeon 44-48 cm in lenght
Phylogeny:
Taxonomy:
- Columba Pinon Quoy and Gaimard, 1824, Luwak, Western Papuan Islands. Often placed in a species-group with D. melanochroa and D. mullerii; affinities have also been suggested between these species and the D. latrans superspecies. Validity of race rubiensis questionable. Four subspecies currently recognized. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
Subspecies and Distribution:
- * pinon (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - W Papuan Is (Misool, Salawati, Batanta, Waigeo) and Aru Is to Vogelkop and CS New Guinea (R Mimika to Hall Sound). * jobiensis (Schlegel, 1873) - Yapen I, N New Guinea (E to Huon Gulf) and islands offN coast (Manam, Karkar, Bagabag). * rubiensis (A. B. Meyer, 1884) - S shores of Geelvink Bay, and coasts of Onin Peninsula E to Etna Bay; SE New Guinea (E from R Kumusi and R Aroa). * salvadorii Tristram, 1882 - D'Entrecasteax Is (Goodenough, Fergusson) and Louisiade Archipelago (Misima, Tagula, Rossel)
Habitat:
Inhabits forest, partially cleared areas and monsoon forest,primarily in the lowlands.
Trophic strategy:
Frugivorous.
Reproduction:
Little information about movements and breeding. Nest is a scanty platform of twigs
Taxonomic name: