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In the Vinony graph
Pale-capped Pigeon is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Pale-capped Pigeon is referenced by 34 other articles, and connects out to frugivore, India and Vietnam.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1842, Birds of India and Birds of Northeast India.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
VulnerablePale-capped Pigeon
species
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Columba punicea
- Commons category
- Columba punicea
- taxon common name
- pombo-purpúreo
- litter size
- 1
- endemic to
- Namdapha National Park
- short name
- C. punicea
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Encyclopedic overview
The pale-capped pigeon (Columba punicea), also known as the purple wood pigeon, is a species of large pigeon that is found patchily distributed in parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has a slow flight and spends a lot of time sitting still in the foliage of large fruiting trees, often in riverine forest on the plains. It is mainly brown above and chestnut below with the a sheen of green or amethyst. Males have a whitish grey cap while females have a brownish grey cap and less gloss on the feathers. They are frugivores, foraging in small groups in the canopy of trees but sometimes descending to the ground for seeds and fallen fruit.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pale-capped Pigeon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.