Manada dove

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Manada dove
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Manada dove ( Turacoena manadensis )

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Pigeon birds (Columbiformes)
Family : Pigeons (Columbidae)
Genre : White-faced pigeons ( Turacoena )
Type : Manada dove
Scientific name
Turacoena manadensis
( Quoy & Gaimard , 1830)

The Manadotaube ( Turacoena manadensis ), also white face dove or white face-cuckoo dove called, is a type of pigeon birds. It occurs only on a few Southeast Asian islands.

Appearance

The manada dove reaches a body length of 42 centimeters. It corresponds to the size of a city ​​pigeon . However, it has a noticeably longer tail. There is no gender dimorphism. The female is just slightly smaller than the male.

Manada doves have a white face and a white throat. The rest of the plumage is slate-black. The wing covers as well as the sides of the neck and the back of the neck have a bronze shimmer. The iris is bright red. The feet are gray. It differs from the closely related cuckoo pigeons in that it has a less stepped tail that is rounded at the end.

Spread and behavior

The manada dove is an island species endemic to Indonesia , which occurs on Sulawesi and the adjacent islands of Manadoma, Lembeh, Bangka , Manterawu, Togian, Muna, Butung, Peleng and Sula . It is a relatively common species there. The habitat of the manada dove are the forest edges of primary forests and the vegetation immediately adjacent to them. It is occasionally seen on cultivated land. The food spectrum includes fruits and berries. In the case of pigeons kept in human care, the breeding period was 18 days. The young birds fledged after 19 days.

Keeping in human care

In 1982 almost a dozen Manada pigeons were imported from Sulawesi to Germany. These are probably the first pigeons of this kind that were brought to Europe. The world's first breeding took place in Belgium in 1996.

Etymology and history of research

Lithograph for the first description of Prêtre

Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard described the Manadotaube under the name Columba manadensis . The type specimen came from Sulawesi or was discovered in the Dutch area near Manado . In 1854 Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte introduced the new genus Turacoena , to which he assigned the Manada dove and the Timor dove ( Turacoena modesta ( Temminck , 1835)). He chose the name because he recognized a resemblance to the Turakos , a name that the West African natives used for the Guineaturako ( Tauraco persa ( Linnaeus , 1758)). The second part of the name is derived from the Greek oinas, oinados , οινας, οιναδος for 'dove'. The species name can be traced back to the area of ​​discovery. Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768–1849) finally provided the panel for the first description in the zoological atlas for Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe .

supporting documents

literature

  • David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes and John Cox: Pigeons and Doves - A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World . Pica Press, Sussex 2001, ISBN 90-74345-26-3 .
  • Alois Münst and Josef Wolters: Tauben - The species of wild pigeons , 2nd expanded and revised edition, Verlag Karin Wolters, Bottrop 1999, ISBN 3-9801504-9-6 .
  • Gerhard Rösler: The wild pigeons of the earth - free living, keeping and breeding . M. & H. Schaper Verlag, Alfeld-Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7944-0184-0 .
  • Jean René Constant Quoy, Joseph Paul Gaimard: Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826–1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. (=  Zoology . Volume 1 ). J. Tatsu, Paris 1830 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte: Zoology - Coup d'œil sur les Pigeons (troisième partie) . In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences . tape 39 , 1854, pp. 1102-1112 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .

Web link

Commons : Manadotaube ( Turacoena manadensis )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gibbs, p. 281
  2. Rösler, p. 147
  3. Münst, p 162
  4. a b Jean René Constant Quoy, p. 248f.
  5. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, p. 1112.
  6. James A. Jobling, p. 380.