Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Cloven-feathered Dove (Drepanoptila holosericea) - HBW 4, p. 224
French: Ptilope vlouvlou
German: Spaltschwingentaube
Spanish: Tilopo de Nueva Caledonia
Taxonomy: Columba Holosericea Temminck, 1810, Sandwich Island (= Éfaté, S Vanuatu); error = New Caledonia.
A very distinctive monotypic genus characterized by notched primaries and short, very rounded wings; closely allied to Ptilinopus, perhaps most closely to those of proposed subgenus Chrysoena, P. victor, P. luteovirens and P. layardi. Monotypic.
Distribution: New Caledonia and I of Pines.
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A male perched in a tree looking around and flying away. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 22 sec 4.3 -
A male singing. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 1 min 13 sec 4.2 -
A female in a tree, turning around, preening and flying away. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 43 sec 4 -
A male preening in a tree. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 24 sec 3.7 -
A female perched in a tree, seen from below. Locality Mont Koghi, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 28 October 2010 1 year ago 30 sec 3.2 -
A male on a dead branch and flying away, producing with the wings the characteristic mechanical sound heard when a bird of this Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 11 sec 2.8
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This bird was calling in a local garden.
Locality Mont Koghi, New Caledonia (Monotypic species)
Sam Woods 5 July 2007 2 years ago 4
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The mechanical sound produced with the wings when a bird starts to fly. Three different ones. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 5 -
A male singing. Locality Parc des Grandes Fougères, New Caledonia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 October 2010 1 year ago 5 -
Songs of several birds. Locality Mont Koghi, New Caledonia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 28 October 2010 1 year ago 3.5
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