The yellow-legged pigeon (''Columba pallidiceps'') is a

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in the

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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 the Bismarck and

Solomon archipelago The Solomon Archipelago is a terrestrial ecoregion and marine ecoregion in the Pacific Ocean. It includes the tropical ocean waters surrounding most of Solomon Islands (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands, which is a part of the Vanuatu marine ecore ...

s. Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s and subtropical or tropical moist

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s. It is threatened by

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. It was formerly classified as

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by the

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. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed; consequently, it was downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008.BLI (2008)

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(BLI) (2008)
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Columba (genus)">yellow-legged pigeon The yellow-legged pigeon (''Columba pallidiceps'') is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropi ...