white-fronted ground dove

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| name = White-fronted ground dove

| image = Caroline_Islands_Ground-Dove.jpg

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22691024/172138008 |title=Pampusna kubaryi |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2020 |access-date=10 December 2020}}

| genus = Pampusana

| species = kubaryi

| authority = (Finsch, 1880)

| synonyms =

  • Phlegoenas kubaryi Finsch, 1880
  • Gallicolumba kubaryi
  • Alopecoenas kubaryi

}}

The white-fronted ground dove or Caroline Islands ground dove (Pampusana kubaryi) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

It is endemic to Micronesia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and plantations .

It is threatened by habitat loss.

This species was formerly in the genus Alopecoenas Sharpe, 1899, but the name of the genus was changed in 2019 to Pampusana Bonaparte, 1855 as this name has priority.{{ cite journal | last1=Bruce | first1=M. | last2=Bahr | first2=N. | last3=David | first3=N. | year=2016 | title=Pampusanna vs. Pampusana: a nomenclatural conundrum resolved, along with associated errors and oversights | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=136 | pages=86–100 | url=https://boc-online.org/bulletins/downloads/BBOC1362-Bruce.pdf }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Pigeons | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/pigeons/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=25 June 2019 }}

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