Genus-level timetree of extant Columbidae according to 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).

Species-level classification of extant Columbidae (following John H. Boyd‘s website “Aves - Taxonomy in Flux”, link). 

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