Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove

About the Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove

The ruddy cuckoo-dove (Macropygia emiliana) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is a medium-sized, reddish brown cuckoo-dove, found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is rated as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species.

The ruddy cuckoo-dove was first described by the French biologist and ornithologist Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte in 1854. It was split from the slender-billed cuckoo-dove in 2003. It has two remaining sub-species:

M. e. emiliana Bonaparte, 1854 - Java to western Lesser Sunda Islands M. e. megala Siebers, 1929 - Kangean Islands Five former subspecies of the ruddy cuckoo-dove were reassigned by the IOU in 2016: M. e. cinnamomea Salvadori, 1892 - Enggano Island was split from the ruddy cuckoo-dove as the Enggano cuckoo-dove.

M. e. borneensis Robinson & Kloss, 1921 - northern Borneo is now provisionally considered a subspecies of the Philippine cuckoo-dove(Macropygia tenuirostris borneensis). M. e. modiglianii Salvadori, 1887 - western Sumatran islands is now considered a subspecies of the Barusan cuckoo-dove.

M. e. elassa Oberholser, 1912 - Mentawai Islands... Wikipedia →