Yellow-legged pigeon

Yellow-legged pigeon
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Columba
Species:	C. pallidiceps
Binomial name
	Columba pallidiceps; (Ramsay, 1877)

The yellow-legged pigeon (Columba pallidiceps) is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

It was formerly classified as Endangered by the IUCN.^[2] But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed. Consequently, it is downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008.^[3]

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ BLI (2004)
^ BLI (2008)

Cited works

BirdLife International (BLI) (2008): [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] BLI (2004)

[3] BLI (2008)

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