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Alternative name: Bar-necked Cuckoo-Dove
- Macropygia magna
Includes Timor Cuckoo-Dove, Tanimbar Cuckoo-Dove and Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove
Identification
Smaller than Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Distribution
Southeast Asia: found in Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, West Timor, Moluccas, Tanimbar Islands and East Timor.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 4 subspecies[1], split into 3 species by Gill and Donsker[2]:
- Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia macassariensis)
- M. m. macassariensis:
- South-western Sulawesi, Tanakeke and Salayar islands
- M. m. longa:
- Eastern Lesser Sundas (Tanahjampea and Kalatoa)
- Timor Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia magna)
- M. m. magna:
- Timor, Wetar and adjacent eastern Lesser Sundas
- Tanimbar Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia timorlaoensis)
- M. m. timorlaoensis:
- Tanimbar Islands (Yamdena, Larat and Selaru)
Habitat
Behaviour
A shy bird.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2016. IOC World Bird Names (version 6.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Dusky Cuckoo-Dove. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Dusky_Cuckoo-Dove
