Yellowish Imperial Pigeon

Ducula subflavescens (Finsch, 1886)

Yellowish Imperial Pigeon, Ducula subflavescens, is a pigeon of the Bismarck Archipelago, breeding on the Admiralty Islands, Lavongai, New Ireland and New Britain, with satellites. It lives in forest and woodland there. It is marked out from the Torresian Imperial Pigeon by its yellow-tinged plumage and the bluish base to the bill. It has also been treated as a separate species rather than a subspecies. Habitat loss threatens it.

Order

Columbiformes

Family

Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves

Breeding range

Australasia: Admiralty Is., Lavongai (=New Hanover), New Ireland and New Britain and satellites (Bismarck Arch.)