Yellow-eyed Pigeon | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Columba |
Species: | C. eversmanni |
Binomial name | |
Columba eversmanni Bonaparte, 1856 |
The Yellow-eyed Pigeon or Pale-backed Pigeon (Columba eversmanni) is a member of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). It breeds in southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Afghanistan, north-east Iran and extreme north-west China. It winters in north-east Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir in India.
The binomial commemorates the biologist and explorer Eduard Friedrich Eversmann.