Columba versicolor

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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 – Bonin Wood-pigeon, Bonin Wood-Pigeon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Published:	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.

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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.

Bibliography [top]

Brazil, M. A. 1991. The birds of Japan. Chistopher Helm, London. Goodwin, D. 1967. Pigeons and doves of the world. British Museum (Natural History), London. Stattersfield, A. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Long, A. J.; Wege, D. C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.