The Buru green pigeon (''Treron aromaticus'') is a
pigeon in the genus ''
Treron
''Treron'' is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae. Its members are commonly called green pigeons. The genus is distributed across Asia and Africa. This genus contains 30 species, remarkable for their green coloration, hence the common ...
''. It is found in the forests of
Buru in Indonesia. Many authorities
split the species from the
pompadour green pigeon complex.
Taxonomy
The Buru green pigeon was
formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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in his revised and expanded edition of
Carl Linnaeus's ''
Systema Naturae
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''. He placed it with all the other doves and pigeons in the
genus ''
Columba
Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...
'' and coined the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Columba aromatica''. Gmelin based his own description on "Le Pigeon Vert d'Amboine" that had been described and illustrated by the French ornithologists
Mathurin Jacques Brisson and
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. The Buru green pigeon is now placed in the genus ''
Treron
''Treron'' is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae. Its members are commonly called green pigeons. The genus is distributed across Asia and Africa. This genus contains 30 species, remarkable for their green coloration, hence the common ...
'' that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.
The genus name is from the
Ancient Greek ''trērōn'' meaning "pigeon" or "dove". The specific epithet ''aromaticus'' is Latin meaning "aromatic" or "fragrant". Amboine (now
Ambon
Ambon may refer to:
Places
* Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia
** Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province
** Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796
* Ambon, Morbihan, a co ...
) and
Buru form part of the
Maluku Islands or Moluccas of
Indonesia that were known as the Spice Islands. The species is
monotypic: no
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
are recognised.
[
The Buru green pigeon was formerly consider as conspecific with the Pompadour green pigeon (''Treron pompadora'').]
Behaviour
The Buru green pigeon usually occurs singly or in small groups. Its flight is fast and direct, with the regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings that are characteristic of pigeons in general. It eats the seeds and fruits of a wide variety of plants. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays two white egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...
s.
References
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