Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) - HBW 4, p. 131
French: Pigeon de Delegorgue
German: Bronzehalstaube
Spanish: Paloma de Delegorgue
Other common names: Bronze-naped/Delegorgue's/Crimson-winged Pigeon
Taxonomy: Columba Delegorguei Delegorgue, 1847, Durban, Natal.
Forms a superspecies with C. iriditorques and C. malherbii, and all three may be conspecific; these three sometimes placed in a subgenus Turturoena. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sharpei (Salvadori, 1893) - SE Sudan through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania (including Zanzibar).
- delegorguei Delegorgue, 1847 - Malawi, E Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Mt Gorongoza) to South Africa (Transkei and E Griqualand to Natal and W Zululand).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male feeding on the ground, showing the white half-collar on the lower nape Locality Mountain Lodge, Mount Kenya National Park, Kenya (ssp sharpei)
Josep del Hoyo 15 August 2000 6 years ago 29 sec 2.5
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Male perched on treetops.
Locality Dlinza Forest Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (ssp delegorguei)
Sam Woods 12 October 2009 3 years ago 3.5
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Calling in the treetops. Recorded from the canopy walkway. Locality Dlinza Forest Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
(ssp delegorguei)
Charles Hesse 8 January 2010 3 years ago 3
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