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Barking Imperial Pigeon
Ducula latrans (Peale, 1849)
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Barking Imperial Pigeon, Ducula latrans, is a pigeon in the family Columbidae that breeds in Fiji across most of the medium and large islands. It is found in mature tropical moist lowland forest and tropical moist montane forest. This bird is one of two imperial pigeons recorded in Fiji, with the other restricted to smaller islands. It is also known as Peale’s imperial pigeon. The species was described by Peale in 1849. Its breeding season runs from May to January, and it lays a single egg in a slight twig nest.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Fiji (sw Polynesia)
