Columba versicolor

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	COLUMBIFORMES	COLUMBIDAE

Scientific Name:

Columba versicolor

Species Authority:

Kittlitz, 1832

Common Name/s:

English

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Bonin Wood-pigeon, Bonin Wood-Pigeon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Columba versicolor was endemic to Nakondo Shima and Peel Island (Chichi-juma) in the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto), Japan². It is known from four specimens, in Frankfurt, Leningrad and Tring¹. It was last recorded in 1889³. Japanese Wood-Pigeon C. janthina has also become extinct in the Bonin Islands, and on Kita-iwo-jima and Iwo-jima immediately to the south, although survives on other offshore Japanese islands³.

Range Description:

Columba versicolor was endemic to Nakondo Shima and Peel Island (Chichi-juma) in the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto), Japan². It is known from four specimens, in Frankfurt, Leningrad and Tring¹. It was last recorded in 1889³. Japanese Wood-Pigeon C. janthina has also become extinct in the Bonin Islands, and on Kita-iwo-jima and Iwo-jima immediately to the south, although survives on other offshore Japanese islands³.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited the lush forested interior of the small islands in its range.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction presumably resulted from clearance of the islands' subtropical evergreen forest, and from predation by introduced cats and rats³.

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction presumably resulted from clearance of the islands' subtropical evergreen forest, and from predation by introduced cats and rats³.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Columba versicolor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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