Sultan's cuckoo-dove

Sultan's cuckoo-dove
M. doreya at Mount Mahawu, North Sulawesi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Macropygia
Species:
M. doreya
Binomial name
Macropygia doreya
Bonaparte, 1854
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Sultan's cuckoo-dove (Macropygia doreya) is a dove in the genus Macropygia found in the northern Moluccas, Sulawesi to New Guinea and the western Papuan islands. It was one of three new species defined when the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was split up in 2016.[1]

  1. ^ "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC Species Updates 2016. 2016.