Pale-backed Pigeon - Yellow-eyed Pigeon - Columba eversmanni - Columbinae - Columbidae

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves (Birds) Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae

Yellow-eyed Pigeon - image © Rajiv Lather

Pale-backed Pigeon (Columba eversmanni), also called Yellow-eyed Pigeon, is a rare winter visitor and passage migrant in India. Size: 30 cm

note: The above specie photographed for the first time in India in October, 2009 by Mr S.S. Punia, the officer in charge of the Tal Chappar Sanctuary (Rajasthan).


Anseriformes	Apodiformes	Bucerotiformes	Caprimulgiformes	Charadriiformes	Ciconiiformes	Columbiformes	Coraciiformes	Cuculiformes

Falconiformes	Galliformes	Gaviiformes	Gruiformes	Passeriformes	Pelecaniformes	Phoenicopteriformes	Piciformes	Podicipediformes

Procellariiformes	Psittaciformes	Pteroclidiformes		Strigiformes		Trogoniformes	Turniciformes	Upupiformes