Columba palumbus maderensis Tschusi, 1904:227
Madeira(n) wood pigeon
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1904 (Hume & Walters, 2012:138); 1924?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Madeira
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
The holotye was destroyed during World War II.
At least six surviving specimens are known:
ZMA 44210 (adult, female)
There is an [url=http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/8180/columba-maderensis-madeiran-wood-pigeon]individual[/url] in the Museu de Historia Natural do Funchal on Madeira.
The America Museum of Natural History (AMNH) holds [url=http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5231862&dataset_key=96c93a1e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a]four[/url] skins.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Viktor Ritter von. (1904). Über palaearktische Formen. VIII. Orn. Jahrb. 15: 227-230.
Other references:
Bannerman, D. A. and Bannerman, W. M. (1965). Birds of the Atlantic Islands, volume 2. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
BirdLife International. (2012). Columba palumbus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.
Fuller, Errol. (2000). Extinct birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gibbs, D., Barnes, E. and Cox, J. (2001). Pigeons and doves. Robertsbridge, Sussex: Pica Press.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Schmitz, P. E. (1899). Die Vögel Madeira's. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch 10(1): 1-40.