COLUMBIFORMES

Bulgaria 1984Bulgaria 1984Bulgaria 1984Bulgaria 1984
Scott:2975 Scott:2976 Scott:2977 Scott:2979
Rock Pigeon
Columba livia
(Columbidae)
Stock Pigeon
Columba oenas
(Columbidae)
Wood Pigeon
Columba palumbus
(Columbidae)
Domestic Pigeon
Columba var. domestica
(Columbidae)
Chile 1948Japan 1984Japan 2000Papua New Guinea 1977Honduras 2001
Scott:C124c Scott:1540 Scott:2693j Scott:465 Scott:C1091
Chilean Pigeon
Columba araucana
(Columbidae)
Japanese Wood-pigeon
Columba janthina
(Columbidae)
Ryukyu Wood-pigeon
Columba jouyi
(Columbidae)
White-breasted Ground Dove
Gallicolumba jobiensis
(Columbidae)
Common Ground Dove
Columbina passerina
(Columbidae)
Bulgaria 1984Sweden 2004Japan 1963British Dominica 1969
Scott:2978 Scott:2488 Scott:790 Scott:271
Turtle Dove
Streptopelia turtur
(Columbidae)
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaocta
(Columbidae)
Oriental Turtle Dove
Streptopelia orientalis
(Columbidae)
Papuan Mountain-pigeon
Gymnophaps albertisii
(Columbidae)
Fiji 2009Fiji 2009Papua New Guinea 1977Fiji 2009Fiji 2009
Scott:1210 Scott:1211 Scott:468 Scott:1212 Scott:1213
Many-colored Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus perousii
(Columbidae)
Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus porphyraceus
(Columbidae)
Orange-fronted Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus aurantiifrons
(Columbidae)
Whistling Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus layardi
(Columbidae)
Orange Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus victor
(Columbidae)
Papua New Guinea 1977Papua New Guinea 1977Papua New Guinea 1977
Scott:466 Scott:467 Scott:469
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Goura victoria
(Columbidae)
Pheasant Pigeon
Otidiphaps nobilis
(Columbidae)
Zoe's Imperial Pigeon
Ducula zoeae
(Columbidae)
Cuba 1974Thailand 1967South Africa 2000Laos 1994
Scott:1916 Scott:473 Scott:1197 Scott:1156
Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
(Columbidae)
Spotted Dove
Spilopelia chinensis
(Columbidae)
African Green Pigeon
Treron calvus
(Columbidae)
Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
(Raphidae)


Indonesia 1971 COPPER-NICKEL
KM#34
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Goura victoria
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)

Ryukyu Wood-pigeon
Columba jouyi
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Oriental Turtle Dove
Streptopelia orientalis
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Japanese Green Pigeon
Sphenurus sieboldii
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Spinifex Pigeon
Geophaps plumifera
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Goura victoria
(Columbidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)
Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
(Raphidae)
(COLUMBIFORMES)


Totsuka Kasio River 2011.1Ueno Zoo 2011.1Ueno Zoo 2011.2Ueno Zoo 2011.1
Domestic Pigeon
Columba var. domestica
(Columbidae)
Japanese Wood-pigeon
Columba janthina
(Columbidae)
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Ducula bicolor
(Columbidae)
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Goura victoria
(Columbidae)

Columbidae is distributed over the tropical zone and the Temperate Zone of the whole world, but it develops most and many kinds live in Orient ward and the Australian region. It is said that it is structure of the self-defense when it was attacked by hawks that the feather is easy to fall out and can outrun you immediately even if it touch a little. Generally it eats the vegetable things such as a nut or grains, but some eats salt depending on a kind. When it drinks water, it drinks with having put a bill in water, and there cannot be the thing that it grows a head like other birds above and swallow water. The fledgling inserts a bill to the throat of the parent bird, and the point brought up in milk "of so-called" Pegion of the predigestion is different in other birds and a habit.
Dodo is the birds which became extinct which inhabited the Madagascar offing, Mauritius Island. Because it becames extinct without 180 years passing after it was discovered, it is treated as a thing to tell about human unnatural which drives an endemic species into the extinction. There can be having already become extinct and the thing that it is called a Dodo bird it is plain, and to do whether a sound points at onomatopoeia or what.

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