The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Mesites, Pigeons And Sandgrouse

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Spilopelia


Eastern Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)

The range of this species extends across much of southeast Asia, from Bangladesh and northeast India in the west to central and eastern China and Taiwan in the east, and south through Indochina and the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines and Greater and Lesser Sundas as far as Timor; introduced throughout much of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Two subspecies recognised:

S. c. chinensis - photo by @LaughingDove



S. c. tigrina - photo by @ThylacineAlive




Western Spotted Dove (Spilopelia suratensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the Indian subcontinent, from southeast Pakistan in the west to Bhutan in the east, and from Nepal in the north to Sri Lanka in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ralph




Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis)

The range of this species extends throughout Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East into the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia; populations are absent from the deserts of the Sahara, Kalahari and Arabia, and patchily distributed elsewhere; populations in the Middle East may be introduced. Introduced in Australia.

Six subspecies recognised:

S. s. phoenicophila - photo by @Zoo Tycooner FR



S. s. aegyptiaca - photo by @Jackwow



S. s. sokotrae
S. s. senegalensis - photo by @Hix



S. s. cambayensis - photo by @gust1



S. s. ermanni
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Nesoenas


Reunion Pigeon (Nesoenas duboisi)

Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to Reunion. Known only from a single sub-fossil humerus and a physical description dating to 1674; predation by introduced rats is presumed to have caused the species' extinction by the end of the 17th century.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mauritius Turtle-dove (Nesoenas cicur)

Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to Mauritus. Known from sub-fossil remains, and physical descriptions dating to 1725 stating that the species was widespread on the island at the time; predation by introduced rats and cats in the following decades is presumed to have caused the species extinction by the end of the 1730's.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rodrigues Turtle-dove (Nesoenas rodericanus)

Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to Rodrigues. Known from scant sub-fossil remains and a handful of physical descriptions from the early 18th century; habitat loss, hunting and predation by introduced species is presumed to have caused the species extinction shortly after the last reported sighting in 1726.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Madagascar Turtle-dove (Nesoenas picturatus)

The range of this species extends throughout Madagascar, the Comoro Islands and Aldabra, along with various adjacent islands and atolls; the species formerly also extended naturally into the Seychelles and Amirante Islands, where it has been reintroduced. Introduced into the Mascarenes.

Three extant subspecies:

N. p. coppingeri
N. p. comorensis
N. p. picturatus - photo by @vogelcommando




Pink Pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri)

Endemic to Mauritus; near-extirpated by 1990 with the population reducing to c.10 individuals, but subsequent to captive-breeding and supplementary feeding programmes the population has recovered to c.380 individuals.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek


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Excellent that will indeed come in handy!

 

Macropygia


Barred Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia unchall)

The range of this species extends from the eastern Himalayas in the west, through southern China into Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, to the Greater and Lesser Sundas as far east as Flores.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. u. tusalia
M. u. minor
M. u. unchall - photo by @Tomek




Andaman Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia rufipennis)

Endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ruddy Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia emiliana)

The range of this species extends throughout the Greater and Lesser Sundas as far east as Flores.

Seven subspecies recognised:

M. e. borneensis - photo by @LaughingDove



M. e. hypopercna
M. e. modiglianii
M. e. elassa
M. e. cinnamomea
M. e. emiliana
M. e. megala

Photo by @Jackwow




Philippine Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia tenuirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout the Philippines.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. t. phaea
M. t. tenuirostris - photo by @devilfish




Dusky Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia magna)

The range of this species extends throughout the Lesser Sundas, southwest Sulawesi and adjacent islands of the Moluccas.

Four subspecies recognised:

M. m. macassariensis
M. m. longa
M. m. magna
M. m. timorlaoensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Slender-billed Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia amboinensis)

The range of this species extends throughout Sulawesi in the west, through the Moluccas, New Guinea and Papuan Islands, to the Bismarck Archipelago in the east.

Eighteen subspecies recognised:

M. a. sanghirensis
M. a. albicapilla - photo by @Chlidonias



M. a. atrata
M. a. albiceps
M. a. amboinensis
M. a. keyensis
M. a. doreya
M. a. maforensis
M. a. griseinucha
M. a. balim
M. a. kerstingi
M. a. goldiei
M. a. meeki
M. a. admiralitatis
M. a. carteretia
M. a. hueskeri
M. a. cinereiceps
M. a. cunctata

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern Australia, from the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula to southeast New South Wales.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. p. quinkan
M. p. robinsoni
M. p. phasianella - photo by @nrg800




Little Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps)

The range of this species extends throughout south-east Asia, from eastern Myanmar and south-central China in the north, through Thailand and the Malay Peninsula into the Greater and Lesser Sundas in the south, as far east as Timor.

Eight subspecies recognised:

M. r. assimilis
M. r. engelbachi
M. r. malayana
M. r. simalurensis
M. r. sumatrana
M. r. nana
M. r. ruficeps
M. r. orientalis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-billed Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia nigrirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout northern New Guinea and into the western Bismarck Archipelago.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura




Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia mackinlayi)

The range of this species extends throughout the eastern Bismarck Archipelago and into the Admiralty and Solomon Islands, and south to Vanatu.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. m. arossi
M. m. troughtoni
M. m. mackinlayi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Turacoena


White-faced Cuckoo-dove (Turacoena manadensis)

The range of this species extends throughout Sulawesi and adjacent islands, including Banggai and the Sula Islands.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias




Black Cuckoo-dove (Turacoena modesta)

Endemic to Timor and Wetar in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Reinwardtoena


Great Cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena reinwardti)

The range of this species extends from the Moluccas in the west, through the West Papuan islands and northern New Guinea, to the D’Entrecasteaux Islands off the east coastline of New Guinea.

Three subspecies recognised:

R. r. reinwardti
R. r. griseotincta - photo by @Cephie



R. r. brevis


Pied Cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena browni)

Endemic to the Admiralty Islands and Bismarck Archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Crested Cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena crassirostris)

Endemic to the Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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I definitely have photos of that one, because I used to have one in the gallery before the Great Purge.

 

I am aware of this, but I would be seriously remiss in my duties were I to automatically assume that any species/subspecies in a given collection HAS to be the one native to the country/region the collection is located within for instance, to cite an example from my recent Corvid thread, the subspecies of Nutcracker held at Zoo Plzen is the Siberian race macrorhynchos and not the nominate race, even though the latter is the one found wild in the Czech Republic.

This, conversely, does clinch the matter I'll make the relevant edits now.

 

Patagioenas


White-crowned Pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala)

The range of this species extends throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and north into the Florida Keys and the southern tip of mainland Florida.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Zooish




Scaly-naped Pigeon (Patagioenas squamosa)

The range of this species extends throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles, barring Jamaica, and south into Bonaire and Curaçao.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Scaled Pigeon (Patagioenas speciosa)

The range of this species extends throughout Central America and the northern half of South America, from southern Mexico to Peru, northeast Bolivia and southern Brazil.

Monotypic.

Photo by @jbnbsn99




Bare-eyed Pigeon (Patagioenas corensis)

The range of this species is restricted to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia and Venezuela, and north to the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Margarita and Blanquilla.

Monotypic.

Photo by @vogelcommando




Picazuro Pigeon (Patagioenas picazuro)

The range of this species extends across much of South America, from northeast Bolivia in the west, east to central and northeast Brazil, and south into central Argentina.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. p. marginalis
P. p. picazuro - photo by @devilfish




Spot-winged Pigeon (Patagioenas maculosa)

The range of this species extends throughout southeast South America, from southeast Bolivia through Paraguay and southern Brazil, into south-central Argentina.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish




White-winged Pigeon (Patagioenas albipennis)

The range of this species extends across eastern South America from central Peru, through western and central Bolivia into northwestern Argentina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Northern Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata)

The range of this species extends throughout western North America and Central America, from southwest British Columbia in the north, south through the western United States, Mexico and northern Central America, to El Salvador and Nicaragua in the south.

Three subspecies recognised:

P. f. monilis - photo by @Ituri



P. f. fasciata - photo by @Ituri



P. f. vioscae


Southern Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas albilinea)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Central America into western South America, from the mountains of Costa Rica in the north, patchily throughout Colombia and Venezuela, and south along the Andes to northwest Argentina.

Three subspecies recognised:

P. a. crissalis
P. a. roraimae
P. a. albilinea - photo by @ThylacineAlive




Chilean Pigeon (Patagioenas araucana)

The range of this species extends throughout south-central Chile and adjacent southern Argentina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ring-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas caribaea)

Endemic to Jamaica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Central and South America, from as far north as southern Mexico, to as far south as south-central Bolivia, Paraguay and northeast Argentina.

Seven subspecies recognised:

P. c. pallidicrissa - photo by @Maguari



P. c. occidentalis
P. c. tamboensis
P. c. andersoni - photo by @ronnienl



P. c. tobagensis
P. c. cayennensis
P. c. sylvestris


Red-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas flavirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout the Atlantic and Pacific coastal regions of Mexico, south into Central America as far as Costa Rica, and east into the Yucatan peninsula.

Four subspecies recognised:

P. f. restricta
P. f. madrensis
P. f. flavirostris
P. f. minima - photo by @Newzooboy




Peruvian Pigeon (Patagioenas oenops)

The range of this species is restricted to the Andes of southeast Ecuador, extending through northern Peru from the upper reaches of the Marañón south to La Libertad.

Monotypic.

Photo by @jayjds2




Plain Pigeon (Patagioenas inornata)

The range of this species is patchily distributed throughout the Greater Antilles, from Hispaniola in the west to Puerto Rico in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Plumbeous Pigeon (Patagioenas plumbea)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern and central South America, from the western slope of the Colombian Andes in the north, south through Ecuador, Venezuela and the Guianas into northern and west-central Brazil; a disjunct population exists from southeast Brazil south into eastern Paraguay.

Six subspecies recognised:

P. p. chapmani
P. p. bogotensis
P. p. wallacei
P. p. pallescens
P. p. baeri
P. p. plumbea

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea)

The range of this species extends throughout southernmost Central America and northern South America, from central Costa Rica in the north, south through Panama into the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador, and from here through Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas as far south as central Amazonian Brazil.

Nine subspecies recognised:

P. s. subvinacea
P. s. berlepsch
P. s. ruberrima
P. s. zuliae
P. s. peninsularis
P. s. anolaimae
P. s. ogilviegranti
P. s. purpureotincta
P. s. recondita


Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout Central America and the extreme north of South America, from southeast Mexico to eastern Panama and northwest Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Dusky Pigeon (Patagioenas goodsoni)

The range of this species is restricted to the Pacific coastline of northern South America, from the lowlands of western Colombia to northwest Ecuador.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Zenaidini


This lineage comprises 6 genera:

Starnoenas - Blue-headed Quail-dove (monotypic)

Geotrygon - Crested Quail-dove and allies (9 species)

Leptotrygon - Olive-backed Quail-dove (monotypic)

Leptotila - Caribbean Dove and allies (11 species)

Zentrygon - Lined Quail-dove and allies (8 species)

Zenaida - Zenaida Doves (7 species)
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Starnoenas


Blue-headed Quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala)

Endemic to Cuba.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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