| Chestnut-quilled rock pigeon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Petrophassa |
| Species: | P. rufipennis
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| Binomial name | |
| Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898
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The chestnut-quilled rock pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis) is a dark sooty brown pigeon with a distinctive bright chestnut patch on its wing visible in flight. It has distinctive pale lines across its face curving above and below its eye.[2][3] A species of bird in the family Columbidae, it is very similar in behaviour and habitat to the white-quilled rock pigeon but it is only found on rocky escarpments in western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Petrophassa rufipennis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22690700A93284224. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22690700A93284224.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ a b Menkhorst, Peter; Rogers, Danny; Clarke, Rohan; Davies, Jeff; Marsack, Peter; Franklin, Kim (2017). The Australian Bird Guide. Clayton, Vic: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 296–297. ISBN 978-0643097544.
- ^ Slater, Peter; Slater, Pat; Slater, Raoul (2009). The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds (2nd ed.). London, Sydney, Auckland: Reed New Holland. pp. 210–211. ISBN 9781877069635.