Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon

Taxonomy

Order

Columbiformes

Family

Columbidae

Genus

Ducula

eBird Code

ptipig1

Subspecies (2)

• Ducula rufigaster rufigaster

  Bird's Head Peninsula, including Raja Ampat Islands (off western New Guinea), and southern New Guinea eastward to Orangerie Bay

• Ducula rufigaster uropygialis

  northern New Guinea (eastward to Huon Gulf), including Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)