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The Andaman wood pigeon (Columba palumboides) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India . Classified as 'near threatened' by the IUCN , its population is estimated as between 2,500 and 10,000 mature individuals.
Palumbo is a surname of Italian origin, derived from Palombo literally meaning "Ring Dove" or Palombella meaning "Wood Pigeon" in the dialects of Southern Italy. The Palumbo family crest depicts a Dove with an olive branch in its beak. Due to this many consider the meaning of Palumbo to be "Dove of Peace". It could refer to:
A breeding chabutro at Sinugra, in the style typical for Kutch.It is more than 100 years old and is a relatively large example built by Seth Khora Ramji built in 1910.. A Chabutro (also spelt Chabutaro; Gujarati) or Chabutra is a tower-like structure found in India that provides nesting sites for birds, especially pigeons. [1]
Columbidae is a bird family consisting of the doves and pigeons.It is the only family in the order Columbiformes.These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres.
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1927 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928. It deals with the life of Gay-Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers."
The stock dove is common in ideal habitat, but never as abundant as the common wood pigeon, typically forming flocks of a few to a few tens, very rarely hundreds, and not the thousands often found with wood pigeons. In part of its European and western Asiatic range it is a migrant. There has been a sharp decline in France (−57% in 1976).
Patagioenas is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus Columba was long disputed but ultimately confirmed. It is basal to the Columba-Streptopelia radiation with their ancestors diverging from that lineage likely over 8 million years ago.
The yellow-footed green pigeon (Treron phoenicopterus), also known as yellow-legged green pigeon, is a common species of green pigeon found in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. [2] It is the state bird of Maharashtra. [3] [4] In Marathi, it is called Haroli or Hariyal. It is known as Haitha in Upper Assam and Haitol in Lower ...