Vik's Gallery:   Spinifex Pigeon (5/6)

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

Geophaps plumifera  

The Rufous-bellied Spinifex Pigeon, race ferruginea, of the Pilbara region.

BirdLife International have reclassified this as a species separate to the White-bellied Spinfex Pigeon constituted by races plumifera and leucogaster*.

*del Hoyo, Josep; Collar, Nigel J; et al. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, p.184.