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This mystery birds of Ethiopia is special because it is probably based on carotenoid pigments to produce their green plumage

Bruce
Green Pigeon Treron

waalia

, Meyer, 1793 (protonym

Columba waalia

) also known as the dove fruit-bellied yellow or yellow-bellied Green Pigeon, photographed at Lake Zway, Ethiopia.

Image

:. Dan Logen, February 6, 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize]

Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, f / 5, 1 / 320 sec, ISO 1000

Question: This mystery birds of Ethiopia is remarkable among birds of color. Can you tell me what is so remarkable about that? Can you tell me the taxonomic name of this bird? Can you identify this species? I think the common name of this bird is very strange: Who is the Australian philosopher

answer:

is a green pigeon Bruce

Treron

waalia . This bird is in the family of pigeons and doves (Columbidae).

Bruce

green pigeon is a dove covered feeding frugivores that specializes in using the fruits of a single species of fig tree Ficus platphylla . It is located in the wooded valleys, wooded grassland and forest habitats of all other sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Somalia until the end of the Arabian Peninsula. It occurs only in northern Ecuador.

This pigeon is special because it is based on pigments for the coloration of their plumage green, as described in the document a correlation between diet and gender expression in the plumage of a dove carotenoid pigments (Bettina Mahler, Lidia Araujo and Paul S. Tubaro L. (May 2003)

The Condor

, 105 (2 ),... 258-267 Free PDF) . In this paper, the authors cite a publication in 1983 by Derek Goodwin [Amazon UK, Amazon U.S.] which states that in captivity

Treron

Pigeon "stop express carotenoid-based plumage of green and yellow if the plan was not adequate, showing the. gray and purple in their place "

The authors of the

Condor
Paper

analyzed a series of green feathers of pigeons and doves, including several species of Treron

Treron

species. The authors note that "[t] his green plumage on the generation of [us]
Treron ... is produced by a combination of melanin and carotenoid pigments of yellow, "and that" several species of the genus

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