Little Cuckoo-Dove

Macropygia ruficeps - Phasianelle à tête rousse

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Columbiformes

  • Family
    :

    Columbidés

  • Genus
    :

    Macropygia

  • Species
    :

    ruficeps

Descriptor

Temminck, 1835

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 30 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 74 à 88 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Phasianelle à tête rousse
♂ adult

Little Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia ruficeps) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.

Subspecific information 8 subspecies

  • Macropygia ruficeps ruficeps (Java and Bali)
  • Macropygia ruficeps assimilis (s Myanmar to nw Thailand and sw China)
  • Macropygia ruficeps engelbachi (nw Vietnam, n Laos)
  • Macropygia ruficeps malayana (Malay Pen.)
  • Macropygia ruficeps simalurensis (Simeulue I.. off nw Sumatra.)
  • Macropygia ruficeps sumatrana (Sumatra)
  • Macropygia ruficeps nana (Borneo and Sibatik I.)
  • Macropygia ruficeps orientalis (Lesser Sundas)

Foreign names

  • Phasianelle à tête rousse,
  • Tórtola cuco chica,
  • rola-cuco-pequena,
  • Sundataube,
  • piroskabátos kakukkgalamb,
  • Kleine Koekoeksduif,
  • Tortora cuculo minore,
  • mindre gökduva,
  • Nymfegjøkdue,
  • hrdlica klinochvostá,
  • holub světleoký,
  • Lille Gøgedue,
  • pikkukäkikyyhky,
  • tórtora-cucut menuda,
  • kasztanówka mała,
  • Малая кукушковая горлица,
  • Uncal kouran,
  • ヒメオナガバト,
  • 小鹃鸠,
  • นกเขาลายเล็ก,
  • 小赤鵑鳩,

Voice song and cries

Habitat

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Other sources of interest

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