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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.
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 prehistorically extinct population on Mangaia likely belongs to another distinct subspecies also. Negros spotted imperial pigeon, Ducula carola nigrorum (Negros and probably Siquijor, late 20th century?) A subspecies of the spotted imperial pigeon not recorded since the 1950s.
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.
The spotted green pigeon is most likely extinct, and may already have been close to extinction by the time Europeans arrived in its native area. [11] The species may have disappeared due to being over-hunted and being preyed upon by introduced animals. Hume suggested that the bird may have survived until the 1820s. [13]
Pigeon is a generalized term for a variety of breeds and even species of birds, but the urban pests most people use the word for are technically “rock doves.” The wild version of the animals ...
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 ]
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).