Endangered
Palau Ground-Dove
Alopecoenas canifrons
Palau Ground-Dove is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Alopecoenas canifrons, recorded as Endangered and tied to Palau.
The pigeon
Pigeons and doves feed on fruit or seed and produce crop milk for the young. Island ground-doves vanish when rats and cats arrive.
Pigeons and doves. Island species in this order rarely survive rats, cats, and habitat clearing.
Range and habitat
Palau Ground-Dove is recorded from Palau.
GBIF currently lists 5 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Pigeons nest in trees or on the ground and raise few young. An island dove with a high threat category is usually one introduced mammal away from silence.
In crisis
Palau Ground-Dove is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Breton Wikipedia article on Alopecoenas canifrons, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q27074720 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
