Nesoenas duboisi (Rothschild, 1907:166)
Reunion pigeon, Réunion pink pigeon, Dubois’s pink pigeon
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Nesoenas mayeri duboisi Rothschild, 1907:166; Columba duboisi (Rothschild, 1907:166)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1700's; 1704 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Réunion, Mascarenes
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 166]
Other references:
Adler, G. H. (1994). Avifaunal diversity and endemism on tropical Indian Ocean islands. Journal of Biogeography 21: 85-95.
BirdLife International. (2012). Columba duboisi. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.
BirdLife International. 2017. Nesoenas duboisi (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22728712A119260576. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22728712A119260576.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Cheke, A. S. (1987). An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates, pp. 5-89. In: Diamond, A. W. (ed.), Studies of Mascarene island birds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Cheke, Anthony S. (2013). Extinct birds of the Mascarenes and Seychelles - a review of the causes of extinction in the light of an important new publication on extinct birds. Phelsuma 21: 4-19.
Cheke, Anthony S. and Hume, Julian Pender. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 464 pp.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
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Hume, Julian Pender. (2011). Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species. Zootaxa 3124: 1-62. [Abstract]
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Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
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Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
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