African green pigeon
The African green pigeon (Treron calvus) is a bird native to Sub-Saharan Africa.[2]
| African green pigeon | |
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| File:African Green Pigeon (Treron calvus), Kruger NP (109583880).jpg | |
| T. c. delalandii in the Kruger Park | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Treron |
| Species: | T. calvus
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| Binomial name | |
| Treron calvus (Temminck, 1811)
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Adult birds have maroon shoulder patches. The shoulder patches are olive in immature birds. They reach a length of 25–28 cm.
Range
Their range includes Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
African Green Pigeon Media
- Treron calvus -at a zoo in Tanzania -upper body-8.jpg
Close-up of the head - African Green Pigeon (Treron calva) in fruit-bearing tree.jpg
T. c. nudirostris feeding on wild figs, Gambia
- Treron calvus glaucus, in vyeboom, f, Pretoria.jpg
T. c. glaucus feeding in Ficus microcarpa, South Africa
- Treron calvus glaucus in Ficus lutea, Pietersburg, b.jpg
T. c. glaucus, showing chestnut undertail-coverts
- African green-pigeon (Treron calvus) Kruger.jpg
Kruger National Park, South Africa
References
- ↑ "Treron calvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "Birdlife International". Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2015-08-24.