Zoe's imperial pigeon (''Ducula zoeae''), also known as the banded imperial pigeon, is a species of
bird in the family
Columbidae.
It is found in
New Guinea.
Its natural
habitats are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...
, subtropical or tropical
mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangroves cannot withstand fr ...
, and subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest.
It is named after Zoë Lesson (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1810), the wife of French ornithologist
René-Primevère Lesson, who described it.
References
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Zoe's imperial pigeon
Zoe's imperial pigeon (''Ducula zoeae''), also known as the banded imperial pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.
It is found in New Guinea.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or ...
Birds of New Guinea
Zoe's imperial pigeon
Zoe's imperial pigeon (''Ducula zoeae''), also known as the banded imperial pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.
It is found in New Guinea.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or ...
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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