Yellow-eyed Pigeon

Yellow-eyed Pigeon
Yellow-eyed Pigeon
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Columba
Species: C. eversmanni
Binomial name
Columba eversmanni
Bonaparte, 1856

The Yellow-eyed Pigeon or Pale-backed Pigeon (Columba eversmanni) is a member of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). It breeds in southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Afghanistan, north-east Iran and extreme north-west China. It winters in north-east Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir in India.

The binomial commemorates the biologist and explorer Eduard Friedrich Eversmann.

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