Yellow-legged Pigeon

When to see the Yellow-legged Pigeon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-legged Pigeon

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Yellow-legged Pigeon

The yellow-legged pigeon is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was formerly classified as Endangered by the IUCN. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed; consequently, it was downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008.

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Easily confused with

Somali PigeonColumba oliviaeC. oliviae is a mid-sized pigeon with pale grey coloration, a mauve cap, yellow eyes and an iridescent collar with bronze-green tones. Silvery PigeonColumba argentinaThe silvery pigeon is indistinguishable from the pied imperial pigeon at a distance, although this is not necessarily true vice versa; as the pied imperial pigeon can vary between a pale grey, pure white and even yellowish colouration, it is often possible to tell that a bird is not a C. argentina. White-naped PigeonColumba albinuchaThe white-naped pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.