Thick-billed ground pigeon | |
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Illustration by John Gould | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Trugon Gray, 1849 |
Species: | T. terrestris
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Binomial name | |
Trugon terrestris G.R. Gray, 1849
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The thick-billed ground pigeon (Trugon terrestris), also known as the jungle pigeon or the slaty/grey ground pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is monotypic within the genus Trugon.[2] Native to New Guinea, its natural habitat is moist tropical lowland forest.