Genus-level timetree of extant Columbidae according to Boyd et al. (2022) and Oliver at al. (2023, supplementary material figure S2), with the distribution of each taxon being indicated by the colour-code used throughout this website (Distribution code).

Classification of extant Columbidae. 

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