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. et al. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474
Schmitz, P. E. (1899). Die Vögel Madeira's. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch 10(1): 1-40.