Pheasant Pigeon - Otidiphaps nobilis - Fazantduif
New Guinea and some larger satellites.
The following 4 subspecies are being recognized:
Otidiphaps nobilis aruensis - Aru Island (southwest of New Guinea);
Otidiphaps nobilis nobilis - Waigeo and Batanta, Yapen, Bird's Head and Neck and West- and Northcentral-New Guinea;
Otidiphaps nobilis cervicalis - Eastcentral-, Northeast- (Huon Peninsula) and Southeast-New Guinea;
Otidiphaps nobilis insularis - Fergusson (D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, east of Southeast-New Guinea) - no recent records.
Of this species there are no Nature Photo's available.
White-Naped Pheasant Pigeon Otidiphaps nobilis aruensis