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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 (
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1810), the wife of French ornithologist René-Primevère Lesson, who described it.


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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 {{Columbiformes-stub