Columbiformes Gallery

New Zealand Pigeon - sitting in a tree about to feed on berries

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New Zealand Pigeon - sitting in a tree about to feed on berries
Westland National Park, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
Its Maori name is Kereru and its endemic to New Zealand. The New Zealand Pigeon is one of the main distributors of seeds in the forest.
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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Wildlife of New Guinea, chromolithograph, published in 1895

Wildlife of New Guinea: 1) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae); 2) Bennett's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus); 3) Palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus); 4) Western crowned pigeon (Goura cristata); 5) Northern cassowary - chick (Casuarius unappendiculatus); 6) Common paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea); 7) Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleucus); 8) Raggiana Bird-of-paradise, (Paradisaea raggiana); 9) Blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi); 10) King bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius, male); 11) Black Sicklebill (Epimachus speciosus); 12) Western parotia (Parotia sefilata). Chromolithograph, published in 1895

Little Pigeon River at Greenbrier, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA

The Little Pigeon River is a river located entirely within Sevier County, Tennessee. It rises from a series of streams which flow together on the dividing ridge between the states of Tennessee and North Carolina inside the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The river is subdivided with three separate tributaries: East, Middle, and West

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