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Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes . These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres .
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]
The Columbidae are a large family of birds including the doves and the pigeons, in the order Columbiformes. Subcategories. This category has the following 31 ...
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) 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 sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
This is an alphabetical list of pigeon breeds; these are exclusively breeds of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica).Other Columbidae species (e.g., the Barbary dove, Streptopelia risoria) have been domesticated and developed into breeds, but these are generally simple colour variations of the plumage
The genus Alectroenas was first described in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the Mauritius blue pigeon (Alectroenas nitidissimus) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek alektruōn, meaning "domestic cock", and oinas, meaning "pigeon".
Ducula is a genus of the pigeon family Columbidae, collectively known as imperial pigeons.They are large to very large pigeons with a heavy build and medium to long tails. They are arboreal, feed mainly on fruit and are closely related to the other genus of fruit-eating doves, Ptilinopu
The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae.The bird is also known as the American mourning dove, the rain dove, the chueybird, colloquially as the turtle dove, and it was once known as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove. [2]