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Speckled Pigeon
Columba guinea · Family Columbidae
Columba guinea
Family Columbidae
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 409,559
- Countries and territories with records
- 55
About this species
This species has 409,559 occurrence records from 55 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (77.5%), Kenya (5.6%), Namibia (3.2%), the Gambia (2.3%) and Ethiopia (2.3%); together they account for 90.8% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.8% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Columba guinea combines the genus name Columba with the species epithet guinea. The Warbla app catalog lists 29 species of the genus Columba; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Columba livia, Columba palumbus and Columba oenas.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 314 species of the family Columbidae. This species ranks 26th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zenaida macroura. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (296,782). The family Columbidae belongs to the order Columbiformes, which has 314 species in the Warbla app catalog.