Blue pigeon
| Blue pigeon | |
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| Seychelles blue pigeon | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Subfamily: | Treroninae |
| Genus: | Alectroenas G.R. Gray, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| † Columba nitidissima Scopoli, 1786
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The blue pigeons are a genus, Alectroenas, of birds in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. They are native to islands in the western Indian Ocean.