Silvery Wood-Pigeon

The Silvery Pigeon , also known as Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon is a species of pigeon. It was thought to be extinct but photographs taken in 2008 near Masokut Island might represent this species.

The Silvery Wood-Pigeon is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

Silvery Pigeon also known as Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon (Columba argentina) Southern Crowned-Pigeon (Goura scheepmakeri) Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) Spanish Pouters / Spanish Croppers Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) Spot-winged Pigeon (Patagioenas maculosa): Mangoverde Sri Lanka Woodpigeon (Columba torringtoni): The Sri Lanka Woodpigeon (Columba torringtoni) is a pigeon which is an endemic resident breeding bird in the mountains of Sri Lanka. More

Silvery Pigeon or Silvery Wood-pigeonThe Silvery Pigeon (Columba argentina), also known as Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon is a species of Pigeon that may have gone extinct in the 20th century. Description It is not distinguishable from the Pied Imperial-pigeon (PIP) from a distance, although this needs not to be true vice-versa: as the PIP can vary between a pale grey, pure white and even yellowish coloration, it is often possible to tell that a bird is not a C. More

Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon is a species of pigeon that may have gone extinct in the 20th century. See more at Wikipedia.org... More

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Order : Columbiformes
Family : Columbidae
Genus : Columba
Species : argentina
Authority : Bonaparte, 1855