São Tomé Olive-pigeon

São Tomé Olive-pigeon

Taxobox
name = Sao Tome Olive-pigeon
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = " Columba"
species = "C. thomensis"
binomial = "Columba thomensis"
binomial_authority = Barboza du Bocage, 1888

The Sao Tome Olive-pigeon or Maroon Pigeon ("Columba thomensis") is a pigeon native to the Sao Tome and Principe Islands off the coast of west Africa.

Distribution: Inhabits the canopy of the primary & secondary evergreen forests of Eastern Africa form Ethiopia, Southern Sudan, Uganda and eastern Belgian Congo to Angola & South Africa. Has been found in the coastal forests, also adapted to the exotic forestry plantations of pine and eucalyptus of South Africa.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2458&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]

ee also

* Olive-pigeon


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