metallic pigeon, white-throated pigeon (Columba vitiensis) Description
English: Metallic Pigeon (Columba vitiensis) - San Diego Zoo
Date 8 February 2012
Author DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metallic_Pigeon_RWD7.jpg
The metallic pigeon, (Columba vitiensis) also known as white-throated pigeon is a medium-sized, up to 37 cm long, bird in the family Columbidae. The metallic pigeon is distributed to tropical forests of eastern Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa and surrounding southwest Pacific islands. A subspecies, the Lord Howe pigeon (Columba vitiensis godmanae), used to exist on Lord Howe Island in Australia, but was exterminated by hunting c. 1853. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Columba, Species: Columba vitiensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830.
