Bruce's green pigeon
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Treron |
| Species: | T. waalia
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| Treron waalia (Meyer, 1793)
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The Bruce's green pigeon (Treron waalia), also known as the yellow-bellied fruit pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Yemen. It is a frugivore bird species that specialises on eating the fruits of a single species of fig tree, Ficus platphylla.[2]
Description
Despite its name, the Bruce's green pigeon is not green but is grey with a light yellow breast instead.
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Kissling, WD; Rahbek, C; Böhning-Gaese, K (2007). "Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness". Proc. Biol. Sci. 274: 799–808. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0311. PMC 2093978. PMID 17251107.
- Kissling, WD; Rahbek, C; Böhning-Gaese, K (2007). "Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness". Proc. Biol. Sci. 274: 799–808. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0311. PMC 2093978. PMID 17251107.
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