Columba: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Columba
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Columba
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Doves
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 small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They feed largely on plant matter, feeding on seeds (granivory), fruit (frugivory), and foliage (folivory).
In colloquial English, the smaller species tend to be called "doves", and the larger ones "pigeons", although the distinction is not consistent, and there is no scientific separation between them. Historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation. The bird most commonly referred to as "pigeon" is the domestic pigeon, descendant of the wild rock dove, which is a common inhabitant of cities as the feral pigeon.
Columbidae contains 52 genera divided into 353 species. The family occurs worldwide, often in close proximity to humans, but the greatest diversity is in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. 118 species (34%) are at risk, and 13 are extinct, with the most famous examples being the dodo, a large, flightless, island bird, and the passenger pigeon, that once flocked in the billions.
...Columba in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Duiwe
- Arabic
- حمام العالم القديم
- Bokmål
- Typiske duer
- Bulgarian
- Гълъби
- Chinese
- 鴿屬
- Czech
- holub
- English
- Typical Pigeons
- English
- Wood-Pigeons
- English
- Old World Pigeons
- Estonian
- Tuvid
- Finnish
- kyyhkyt
- German
- Feldtauben
- Hebrew
- יונה
- Italian
- Colombi
- Japanese
- カワラバト属
- Korean
- 흑비둘기속
- Latvian
- Baloži
- Lithuanian
- Tikrieji karveliai
- Russian
- Голуби
- Thai
- นกพิราบป่า นกพิราบเขาสูง ฯลฯ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Alectroenas
- Alopecoenas
- Aplopelia
- Bountyphaps
- Caloenas
- Chalcophaps
- Claravis
- Columba
- Columbina
- Cryptophaps
- Didunculus
- Drepanoptila
- Ducula
- Dysmoropelia
- Ectopistes
- Gallicolumba
- Geopelia
- Geophaps
- Geotrygon
- Goura
- Gymnophaps
- Hemiphaga
- Henicophaps
- Leptotila
- Leptotrygon
- Leucosarcia
- Lopholaimus
- Macropygia
- Metriopelia
- Microgoura
- Natunaornis
- Nesoenas
- Ocyphaps
- Oena
- Otidiphaps
- Paraclaravis
- Patagioenas
- Petrophassa
- Pezophaps
- Phapitreron
- Phaps
- Ptilinopus
- Raphus
- Reinwardtoena
- Spilopelia
- Starnoenas
- Streptopelia
- Streptopelia decaocto × Zenaida macroura
- Treron
- Trugon
- Turacoena
- Turtur
- Uropelia
- Zenaida
- Zentrygon
Child Taxa
- Columba albinucha
- Columba albitorques
- Columba argentina
- Columba arquatrix
- Columba bollii
- Columba delegorguei
- Columba elphinstonii
- Columba eversmanni
- Columba guinea
- Columba hodgsonii
- Columba iriditorques
- Columba janthina
- Columba jouyi
- Columba junoniae
- Columba leucomela
- Columba leuconota
- Columba livia
- Columba malherbii
- Columba oenas
- Columba oliviae
- Columba pallidiceps
- Columba palumboides
- Columba palumbus
- Columba pollenii
- Columba pulchricollis
- Columba punicea
- Columba rupestris
- Columba sjostedti
- Columba thiriouxi
- Columba thomensis
- Columba torringtoniae
- Columba trocaz
- Columba unicincta
- Columba versicolor
- Columba vitiensis































































































































































