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Chalcophaps indica
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Description
COMMON (ASIAN) EMERALD DOVE Chalcophaps indica #
Local name Man Kiryoy Wum (Sansundi).
Range C. i. minima Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Mios Num.
Status Teluk Cenderawasih endemic subspecies. Obtained by just two collectors but recorded by nearly all recent visitors to Biak. Common but infrequently seen, however its distinctive advertising call is frequently heard around dawn. On Supiori the species was first recorded by Ripley (Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939), then by KDB during July 1982 and Gibbs in 1991 (Gibbs 1993).
Notes
Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Chalcophaps
- Species
- indica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Bishop, 2023
References
- Mayr, E. & Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1939. Zoological results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition to the South Pacific for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937 - 1938. Part I. The birds of the island of Biak. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 91: 1 - 37.
- Gibbs, D. 1993. Irian Jaya 1991. Unpubl. report.