#1100 · 🐦 birds

Crested Pigeon

🇳🇱 Spitskuifduif ·Ocyphaps lophotes

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The crested pigeon ( Ocyphaps lophotes ) is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for the far northern tropical areas. It is the only member of the genus Ocyphaps . Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the spinifex pigeon. The crested pigeon is the larger of the two species. The crested pigeon is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a topknot pigeon, but the topknot pigeon, Lopholaimus antarcticus has a red-brown...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,077iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
26,077 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1822 (204 years ago).