Mascarene Pigeons and Turtle-Doves
Nesoenas
Nesoenas is a bird genus in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae. It is often included with the typical turtle-doves in Streptopelia or the typical pigeons (Columba). By those who accepted it, it was usually treated as monotypic, containing only the pink pigeon (N. mayeri) of Mauritius.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
Malagasy Turtle-Dove
speciesNesoenas picturatus
Pink Pigeon
speciesNesoenas mayeri
Mauritius Turtle-Dove
speciesNesoenas cicur
Rodrigues Turtle-Dove
speciesNesoenas rodericanus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71731.