Blue-headed quail-dove

Blue-headed quail-dove
Blue-headed quail-dove
Near Playa Larga, Cuba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Starnoenas
Bonaparte, 1838
Species:
S. cyanocephala
Binomial name
Starnoenas cyanocephala
Synonyms

Columba cyanocephala Linnaeus, 1758

The blue-headed quail dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala), or blue-headed partridge-dove, is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. It is monotypic within the subfamily Starnoenadinae and genus Starnoenas.[2][3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Starnoenas cyanocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22690970A178419260. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22690970A178419260.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Olson, Storrs L.; Wiley, James W. (2016). "The Blue-headed Quail-Dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala): an Australasian dove marooned in Cuba". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 128 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1676/1559-4491-128.1.1. S2CID 87628107.
  3. ^ Thomas M. Brooks; John D. Pilgrim; Ana S. L. Rodrigues & Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca (2005). "Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history". In Andy Purvis; John L. Gittleman & Thomas Brooks (eds.). Phylogeny and Conservation. Conservation Biology. Vol. 8. Cambridge University Press. pp. 267–294. ISBN 978-0-521-82502-3.