Bruce's green pigeon
| Bruce's green pigeon | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Treron |
| Species: | T. waalia |
| Binomial name | |
| Treron waalia (Meyer, 1793) | |
The Bruce's green pigeon (Treron waalia) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Yemen. It is a frugivore bird species that specialises on eating the fruits of a single species of fig tree, Ficus platphylla.[2]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Treron waalia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Food plant diversity as a broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2093978/ (Kissling et al. 2007)
- Food plant diversity as a broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2093978/ (Kissling et al. 2007)
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