Critically Endangered
Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon
Otidiphaps insularis
Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Otidiphaps insularis, recorded as Critically Endangered.
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
No country pin is stored for Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
GBIF currently lists 2 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
Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon is Critically 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 Wikidata item Q31873560 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
