Western crowned pigeon
Western crowned pigeon | |
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At Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Birdpark, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Goura |
Species: | G. cristata
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Binomial name | |
Goura cristata (Pallas, 1764)
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The western crowned pigeon (Goura cristata), also known as the common crowned pigeon or blue crowned pigeon, is a large, blue-grey pigeon with blue lacy crests over the head and dark blue mask feathers around its eyes. Both sexes are almost similar but males are often larger than females. It is on average 70 cm (28 in) long and weighs 2.1 kg (4.6 lbs).[3]
Along with its close and very similar-looking relatives the
Hunted for food and its plumes, it remains common only in remote areas. Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range and overhunting in some areas, the western crowned pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed in Appendix II of CITES.
The western crowned pigeon was first described by the German naturalist
In culture
- The mambruk ubiaat (western crowned pigeon) appears on the coat of arms of West Papua, Indonesia.
- The western crowned pidgeon was featured on the 1968 Indonesian postage stamps.
- The western crowned pigeon appears on coat of arms of a proposed Republic of West Papua.[8]
- The video game spin-off Angry Birds Stella has a western crowned pigeon named Willow, who wears a striped hat to conceal her crest.
Gallery
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ISBN 0-300-07886-2.
- ^ Peters, James Lee (1937). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140.
- ^ Sherborn, C. Davies (1905). "The new species of birds in Vroeg's catalogue, 1764". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 47: 332–341 [334 No. 78]. Includes a transcript of the 1764 text.
- .
- PMID 29199106.
- ^ Helradica civica et militaria (in English)