Columbiformes
Columbidae
Pigeons and Doves
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close boxRelationships after Pereira et al. 2007. Taxa not included in this analysis are placed incertae sedis.
References
Baptista, L. F., P. W. Trail, and H. M. Horblit. 1997. Family Columbidae (pigeons and doves). Pages 60–243 in Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal, eds. Lynx Editions, Barcelona.
Crome, F. and J. Shields. 1992. Parrots and Pigeons of Australia. Angus and Robertson and the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Sydney.
Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
Gibbs, D., J. Cox, and E. Barnes. 2001. Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hardy, J. W., G. B. Reynard, and B. B. Coffey. 1989. Voices of the New World Pigeons and Doves. ARA Records, Gainesville, Florida.
Johnson, K. P. 2004. Deletion bias in avian introns over evolutionary timescales. Molecular Biology and Evoluiton 21:599-602.
Johnson, K. P. and D. H. Clayton. 2000. Nuclear and mitochondrial genes contain similar phylogenetic signal for pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14:141–151.
Johnson, K. P., S. De Kort, K. Dinwoodey, A. C. Mateman, C. ten Cate, C. M. Lessells, and D. H. Clayton. 2001. A molecular phylogeny of the dove genera Streptopella and Columba. Auk 118(4):874-887.
Lijtmaer, D. A., B. Mahler, and P. L. Tubaro. 2003. Hybridization and postzygotic isolation patterns in pigeons and doves. Evolution 57(6):1411-1418.
Mahler, B. and P. L. Tubaro. 2001. Relationship between song characters and morphology in New World pigeons. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(4):533-539.
Pereira, S. L., K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton, and A. J. Baker. 2007. Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences Support a Cretaceous Origin of Columbiformes and a Dispersal-Driven Radiation in the Paleogene. Systematic Biology 56(4):656–672.
Shapiro, B., D. Sibthorpe, A. Rambaut, J. Austin, G. M. Wragg, O. R. Bininda-Emonds, P. L. Lee, and A. Cooper. 2002. Flight of the dodo. Science 295(5560):1683.
Steadman, D. W. 1997. The historic biogeography and community ecology of Polynesian pigeons and doves. Journal of Biogeography 24(6):737-753.
Information on the Internet
- Dove Detectives. A study of where doves and pigeons are seen in cities. Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Streptopelia decaocto |
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| Location | Bedfordshire UK |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Collared dove |
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| Copyright | © 2005 Steve Makin |
| Scientific Name | Ptilinopus regina |
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| Location | Shortland Wetlands, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove |
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| Copyright | © 2006 Marj Kibby |
| Scientific Name | Ducula bicolor bicolor |
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| Location | Tangkoko, Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Comments | park stock |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Pied Imperial Pigeon, Ducula bicolor bicolor |
| Source Collection | Flickr |
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| Copyright | © 2007 Lip Kee Yap |
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