Grey Imperial Pigeon - BirdForum Opus

Photo by tony.saw
Pandan Island, Philippines, February 2011

Ducula pickeringii

Identification

40 cm

• Greyish pink or pale mauve head
• White eye-ring
• Whitish band at bill base
• Pinkish breast, underparts and neck

Distribution

South-east Asia, Oceania and Australasia: found on Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Greater and Lesser Sundas.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• D. p. pickeringii:

• Sulu Archipelago and small islands off north and north-eastern Borneo

• D. p. langhornei:

• Sulu Islands (Bolod and Loran)

• D. p. palmasensis:

• Miangas and Talaud islands (off Sulawesi)

Habitat

Lowland forest.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet is not well recorded, but they are presumably frugivorous

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Grey Imperial Pigeon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Grey_Imperial_Pigeon

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