Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Silvery Pigeon (Columba argentina) - HBW 4, p. 120
French: Pigeon argenté
German: Silbertaube
Spanish: Paloma Plateada
Other common names: Silver Pigeon, Silvery/Grey Woodpigeon
Taxonomy: Columba argentina Bonaparte, 1855, Malaysia and Borneo.
Probably related to C. pulchricollis and allied species, possibly including C. punicea. Monotypic.
Distribution: Simeulue and Mentawai Is (Sipura, South Pagai); Riau (Karimun Besar, Batam, Bintan) and Lingga (Saya) Archipelagos; Anambas Is, North Natunas and Karimata Is (off W Borneo). Exceptionally recorded in lowlands of mainland Borneo and possibly Sumatra. Formerly also on Burong I (Malaysia), where now extinct.
- Critically Endangered Enlarge map
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the second Silvery Pigeon at the first site, preening beneath a Green Imperial Pigeon Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 51 weeks ago 35 sec 3.7 -
ventral view high in isolated tree, preening, raining lots! Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 1 year ago 44 sec 3.7 -
ventral view high in isolated tree, wing stretching, raining lots! Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 1 year ago 42 sec 3.7 -
ventral view high in isolated tree, preening, raining lots! Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 1 year ago 1 min 3.7 -
Green Imperial Pigeon above the Silvery Pigeon flies off, Silvery Pigeon flaps but remains Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 51 weeks ago 17 sec 3.3 -
perched in canopy, flies off Locality Simeulue Island, Aceh Region, Sumatra (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 9 January 2011 51 weeks ago 37 sec 3
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