Pigeon de Madagascar

Nesoenas picturatus

Grande colombe trapue avec de grands coins blancs à la queue. Bien que commune, elle est timide, le plus souvent vue s'envolant le long d'une route ou d'un sentier forestier. Trouvée dans tous les types de forêt et d'habitats dégradés avec végétation ligneuse. Sa voix est une série de notes « hoooo » creuses et ascendantes, avec une brève pause entre chaque note. Sa coloration rosâtre et rousse est unique parmi les colombes de son aire de répartition.

Identification

Large, chunky dove with big white corners to the tail. Although common, it is shy, most often seen when flying away along a road or a forest path. Found in all types of forest and degraded habitats with woody vegetation. Voice is a series of hollow, rising “hoooo” notes, with a brief pause between each note. Pinkish and rufous coloration is unlike that of any other dove in its range. 

Taxonomie

The bird has several subspecies. The Rodrigues pigeon, an extinct but fairly enigmatic taxon from Rodrigues on the Mascarenes, was for some time suspected to be another subspecies of N. picturata, but today is generally considered a distinct species (N. rodericanus).<p>The pink pigeon (N. mayeri) is its closest living relative, and together they form a lineage apart from both the typical pigeons (Columba) and the typical turtle doves (Streptopelia), slightly closer to the latter, if anything. Consequently, either these two are both placed in Streptopelia, or – as is probably the most accurate solution at present – separated as Nesoenas. The present species was in former times sometimes placed in a monotypic genus Homopelia. While this is not outright wrong, if the Rodrigues population is also placed in Homopelia and Nesoenas is considered distinct too, it would probably be considered oversplitting by modern authors.

Nom scientifique
Nesoenas picturatus
Autorité
(Temminck, 1813)
Ordre
Columbiformes
Famille
Columbidés
Genre
Nesoenas

Répartition et habitat

Migration
Espèce sédentaire

Comportement

Mode de migration: Espèce sédentaire.

Conservation

Tendance de la population: stable.

Tendance de la population
stable

Photos

Distribution

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