Gallicolumba ferruginea

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	COLUMBIFORMES	COLUMBIDAE

Scientific Name:

Species Authority:

(Forster, 1844)

Common Name/s:

English

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Tanna Ground-dove, Tanna Ground-Dove

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

Range Description:	Gallicolumba ferruginea is known only from Forster's 1774 painting, from Tanna Island, Vanuatu, in Tring².

Range Description:

Gallicolumba ferruginea is known only from Forster's 1774 painting, from Tanna Island, Vanuatu, in Tring².

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known, although it may have inhabited the islands' forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	It is likely to have become extinct because of hunting and the depredations of human comensals.

Major Threat(s):

It is likely to have become extinct because of hunting and the depredations of human comensals.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Gallicolumba ferruginea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 February 2012.
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