The red-knobbed imperial pigeon (''Ducula rubricera'') is a
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
in the
family
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Columbidae
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
. It is found in
Bismarck Archipelago and the
Solomon Islands archipelago
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. Its natural
habitat
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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s.
It is classified as a species of
least concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...
by the
IUCN.
References
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Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago
Birds of the Solomon Islands
Birds described in 1854, red-knobbed imperial pigeon
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, red-knobbed imperial pigeon
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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