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The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species. The scientific name also refers to its migratory characteristics.
It includes 13 extinct species. [1] For a list of domesticated varieties, see List of pigeon breeds . The IOC breeding range descriptions use the following abbreviations for continents and other major geographic areas.
The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. [3] Other areas, such as Guam, have also been hit hard; Guam has lost over 60% of its native bird taxa in the last 30 years, many of them due to the introduced brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis). [4]
Whitman kept these pigeons to study their behavior, along with rock doves and Eurasian collared-doves. [6] Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, recognizing the decline of the wild populations, attempted to consistently breed the surviving birds, including attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs. [7]
Choiseul Crested Pigeon [1] Slender-billed grackle; 1911 Guadalupe Storm Petrel [1] 1914 Forest Spotted Owlet [1] Passenger pigeon [1] 1916 Korean Crested Shelduck [1] 1918 Carolina Parakeet (subsp. carolinensis) [1] Lānaʻi Hookbill, a honeycreeper; 1920 Delalande's Madagascar Coucal [1] Laysan Millerbird (subsp.) [1] Lord Howe Island ...
This page is a list of the genera of pigeons and doves (the family Columbidae), which are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution. The group has 310 living species. The group has 310 living species.
Tongoenas, also known as the Tongan giant pigeon, is an extinct genus of giant pigeon that grew up to 51 centimetres (20 in) long that was once native to the islands of Tonga. It had existed as a genus for at least 60,000 years, and went extinct around 850–600 BCE.
The Rodrigues pigeon or Rodrigues dove (Nesoenas rodericanus) is an extinct species of pigeon formerly endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. It is known from a subfossil sternum and some other bones, and the descriptions of Leguat (1708) and Julien Tafforet (1726).