Endangered
White-fronted ground dove
Alopecoenas kubaryi
White-fronted ground dove is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Alopecoenas kubaryi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The white-fronted ground dove or Caroline Islands ground dove (Pampusana kubaryi) is a bird in the family Columbidae.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Micronesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
White-fronted 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 English Wikipedia article on White-fronted ground dove, Wikidata item Q27074701. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
