Pale-backed Pigeon

Pale-backed Pigeon

Taxobox
name = Pale-backed Pigeon
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = " Columba"
species = "C. eversmanni"
binomial = "Columba eversmanni"
binomial_authority = Bonaparte, 1856

The Pale-backed or Yellow-eyed 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 Indian Occupied Kashmir.

The binomial commemorates the biologist and explorer Eduard Friedrich Eversmann.

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2451&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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