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Columba rupestris

Photo by martinuk
Zing Chen camp, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India, July 2005

[edit] Identification

White tail with a black terminal band.

[edit] Distribution

Central Asia, Tibet and western China

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

C. r. turkestanica: Altai Mountains to Turkestan, Tibet and northern Himalayas

C. r. rupestris: Western Mongolia to eastern Tibet, southern China and Korea

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages