Bonin Woodpigeon vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Columba versicolor مقارنةً بـ Ptilinopus mercierii

Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Bonin Woodpigeon Red-moustached Fruit-dove
الاسم العلمي Columba versicolor Ptilinopus mercierii
الرتبة Columbiformes Columbiformes
الفصيلة Columbidae Columbidae
حالة الحفاظ Extinct Extinct
الطول
طول الجناح
الوزن
النظام الغذائي -- --
عدد البيض في الوضع -- --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

Bonin Woodpigeon only

بلا

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

بلا

Song & Call Comparison

Bonin Woodpigeon

الغناء

Deep, mournful cooing with hollow quality; slow resonant notes of Bonin woodpigeon once echoing through forest.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

حالة الحفاظ

Extinct

Bonin Woodpigeon

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Bonin Woodpigeon

الريش

Bonin Woodpigeon: extinct; dark above; iridescent neck gloss; pale below; Bonin islands; known from specimens only; lost species

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

About These Birds

Bonin Woodpigeon

Bonin Woodpigeon (Columba versicolor) — ~45 cm. Extinct. Inhabited Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands, Japan. Dark iridescent plumage; last recorded in 1889. Driven to extinction by hunting and habitat clearance following colonisation of the islands.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Red-moustached Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus mercierii), 27 cm. Green with a red moustachial streak and orange underparts; endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Last confirmed on Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Possibly Extinct; last reliably recorded in the 1970s. Threatened by introduced rats and cats.

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