Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) - HBW 4, p. 152

French: Colombine lumachelle German: Bronzeflügeltaube Spanish: Paloma-bronce Común
Other common names: Bronze/Bronzewing/Common Bronzewing/Brown Pigeon, Forest/Scrub Bronzewing

Taxonomy: Columba chalcoptera Latham, 1790, Norfolk Island; error = Sydney, New South Wales.
Genus belongs to the large radiation of Australian bronzewings, which also includes genera Ocyphaps, Geophaps and Petrophassa, and, more distantly, Chalcophaps and Henicophaps. Present species closely allied with P. elegans. Plumage varies throughout range, but apparently clinally. Monotypic.

Distribution: Australia and Tasmania.