Vanuatu imperial pigeon

Vanuatu imperial pigeon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ducula
Species: D. bakeri
Binomial name
Ducula bakeri
(Kinnear, 1928)

The Vanuatu imperial pigeon (Ducula bakeri) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Vanuatu.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The binomial of this bird commemorates the British zoologist John Randal Baker.

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