23 Photos That Showcase The World's Most Beautiful Doves And Pigeons

Cinnamon-bellied imperial pigeon: These pigeons are native to the northern Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. The second part of their formal name – Ducula basilica – means magnificent or splendid in Latin. The cinnamon-bellied imperial pigeon was formally described in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte from a specimen collected in Gilolo now Halmahera, the largest island in the Maluku Islands. He coined the current binomial name Ducula basilica.