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The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is a large, bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast and red irises.It is part of a genus of four unique, very large, ground-dwelling pigeons native to the New Guinea region, with the Victoria crowned pigeon measuring as the largest extant species of pigeon.
The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of the nearby island Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae.
The crowned pigeons (Goura) are a genus of birds in the family Columbidae. It contains four large species of pigeon that are endemic to the island of New Guinea and a few surrounding islands. The species are extremely similar to each other in appearance, and occupy different regions of New Guinea.
Columbea is a clade suggested by genome analysis that contains Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclidae (sandgrouse), Mesitornithidae (mesites) and Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes). [2] Until their recent placement as the sister taxon to Passerea , in the last decade various genetic analysis found them to be in the obsolete clade ...
The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is one of the largest extant pigeons. The blue-headed quail-dove ( Starnoenas cyanocephala ) of Cuba is a relictual species with no close relatives. A red-eyed dove ( Streptopelia semitorquata ) on the Zambezi in Zimbabwe
Some exceptionally large Victoria crowned pigeons have reached 3.7 kg (8.2 lb) and 85 cm (33 in). The largest arboreal pigeon is the Marquesan imperial pigeon (Ducula galeata), which can grow approximately 0.8 m (2.6 ft) across the wings and can weigh 1 kg (2.2 lb). [88]
A series of three walkthrough aviaries with Victoria crowned pigeons and a variety of other birds. Window on Paradise. This building had three free-flight aviaries for rare birds-of-paradise. [21] Hornbills and Toucans. The area consisted of 27 large aviaries containing the world's largest collection of hornbills. The Jurong Bird Park was the ...
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon was most closely related to the Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria). [6] Being tame and heavily hunted for its meat and plumes, Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.