Columba
Bonin Woodpigeon (Columba versicolor)
Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Bonin Islands of Japan, and is known only from four specimens collected between 1827 and 1889. The extinction of the species is believed to have been caused by habitat loss and predation by introduced species.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Ryukyu Woodpigeon (Columba jouyi)
Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to islands in the Okinawa archipelago, southwest of the Japanese mainland. The last confirmed record of this species dates to 1936, with scattered unconfirmed reports on isolated islets into the early 1960s. The extinction of this species is believed to have been caused by habitat loss.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Mauritius Woodpigeon (Columba thiriouxi)
Extinct; this species was formerly endemic to Mauritus. It is known only from a sub-fossil tarsometatarsus collected in 1910, and its taxonomic classification is uncertain. It is presumed to have been extirpated at some point in the 17th or 18th century due to habitat loss, hunting and/or the introduction of predator species.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Rock Dove (Columba livia)
The ancestor of the feral pigeon, and as such the native range - and the purity/identity of any true wild populations - is somewhat unclear; it is believed to extend throughout western and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and into Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Introduced and feral populations are present more-or-less worldwide, outside the Arctic circle and Antarctica.
Nine subspecies recognised; as noted, the purity and/or validity of many of these is questioned:
C. l. livia - photo by
@Maisie
C. l. gymnocycla
C. l. targia
C. l. dakhlae
C. l. schimperi
C. l. palaestinae
C. l. gaddi
C. l. neglecta
C. l. intermedia
Hill Pigeon (Columba rupestris)
The range of this species extends throughout central and eastern Asia, from Turkestan and southern Siberia, through Mongolia and northern China, to the Russian Far East and Korean Peninsula.
Two subspecies recognised:
C. r. turkestanica - photo by
@Chlidonias
C. r. rupestris
Snow Pigeon (Columba leuconota)
The range of this species extends throughout Central Asia and the Himalayas, from the southern Altai Mountains and Afghanistan in the west, through northern Pakistan, northern India and Nepal, and into southwest China, Bhutan and northernmost Myanmar in the east.
Two subspecies recognised:
C. l. leuconota
C. l. gradaria
No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea)
The range of this species extends across much of sub-Saharan Africa, absent only from the Congo Basin and adjacent rainforest areas, and the majority of the eastern coastline south of the Horn of Africa.
Three subspecies recognised:
C. g. guinea
C. g. bradfieldi
C. g. phaeonota
Photo by
@Hix
White-collared Pigeon (Columba albitorques)
Endemic to the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@LaughingDove
Stock Dove (Columba oenas)
The range of this species extends throughout Europe and the Middle East into Central Asia, from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula in the west to southwest Siberia in the east; a disjunct population exists in southern Central Asia, from the southern Altai Mountains through Tien Shan to Xinjiang.
Two subspecies recognised:
C. o. oenas - photo by
@vogelcommando
C. o. yarkandensis
Yellow-eyed Pigeon (Columba eversmanni)
The range of this species extends throughout Central Asia, from the Aral Sea in the west to Tien Shan in the east and south to northwest Iran and adjacent Afghanistan, with wintering populations present in the northeast Indian subcontinent.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Somali Pigeon (Columba oliviae)
Endemic to the coastline of northern and northeast Somalia.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Common Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus)
The range of this species extends throughout Europe and North Africa into western Asia, from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula in the west to western Siberia and the Middle East in the east; a disjunct population is present in southern Central Asia and the Himalayas.
Four extant subspecies recognised:
C. p. azorica
C. p. palumbus - photo by
@Jackwow
C. p. iranica
C. p. casiotis
Madeira Laurel-pigeon (Columba trocaz)
Endemic to northern Madeira.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Dark-tailed Laurel-pigeon (Columba bollii)
Endemic to the western Canary Islands.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
White-tailed Laurel-pigeon (Columba junoniae)
Endemic to the western Canary Islands.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Afep Pigeon (Columba unicincta)
The range of this species extends throughout southern West Africa and the Congo Basin in a pair of disjunct population; from Sierra Leone in the west to Ghana in the east; and from southeast Nigeria through the Congo Basin to Uganda in the east and northern Angola in the south.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
