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Ocyphaps lophotes · Family Columbidae

Ocyphaps lophotes

Family Columbidae

Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,231,638
Countries and territories with records
19
Crested Pigeon
Charles J. Sharp · Crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes lophotes) Adelaide.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 1,231,638 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Ocyphaps lophotes combines the genus name Ocyphaps with the species epithet lophotes. It is the only species of the genus Ocyphaps in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 314 species of the family Columbidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zenaida macroura. Its record count is 4.1 times the family average (296,782). The family Columbidae belongs to the order Columbiformes, which has 314 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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