Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Short-billed Pigeon (Columba nigrirostris) - HBW 4, p. 128
French: Pigeon à bec noir
German: Kurzschnabeltaube
Spanish: Paloma Piquicorta
Taxonomy: Columba nigrirostris P. L. Sclater, 1860, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Forms a species group with C. plumbea, C. subvinacea and C. goodsoni; all four small species have very similar songs distinct from other New World Columba; sometimes placed in a subgenus Oenoenas. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Mexico to E Panama and NW Colombia (N Chocó).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched on a branch, looking around. Locality Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Jaguar Preserve), Stann Creek District, Belize (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 11 August 2005 4 years ago 18 sec 3.9 -
A dorsal and then a ventral view of a bird perched, looking around and preening. Locality Yaxchilán Archaeological Park, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 April 2009 2 years ago 32 sec 3.8 -
A bird on a thick branch, preening its chest. Locality Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Jaguar Preserve), Stann Creek District, Belize (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 11 August 2005 4 years ago 14 sec 3.7 -
A bird on a branch, singing twice. Locality Yaxchilán Archaeological Park, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 April 2009 2 years ago 41 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched on a branch. Locality Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Jaguar Preserve), Stann Creek District, Belize (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 10 August 2005 4 years ago 7 sec 3.3 -
various individuals getting ready to roost in a small tree in a fairly open forest gap Locality La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica
DAVID ASCANIO 16 July 2010 1 year ago 15 sec 2.7
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A bird on a branch.
Locality Yaxchilán Archaeological Park, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 April 2009 2 years ago 3.5
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Four bouts of song.
Locality Yaxchilán Archaeological Park, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern)
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 April 2009 2 years ago 3
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