Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor)

Query: columbidae

Result: 277^th of 327

Subject:	Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

Resolution: 600x595 File Size: 44586 Bytes Upload Date: 2017:02:21 17:34:01

Description
Watercolour by Lydia Kingsley Kefford (c.1900). This is a later reproduction copied from a picture by F.H. Von Kittlitz.
Date circa 1900
Source http://extinct-website.com/extinct-website/product_info.php?cPath=22_48&products_id=456
Author Lydia Kingsley Kefford
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columba_versicolor.jpg

The Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor) was a pigeon endemic to Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan. It is known from four recorded specimens, the first from 1827 and the last from 1889. They averaged a length of 45 cm. This pigeon died out late in the 19th century as a result of deforestation, hunting, and predation by introduced rats and cats. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Columba, Species: Columba versicolor Kittlitz, 1832.

columbidae
277/327

^o^ Animal Pictures Archive for smart phones ^o^