Endangered
Polynesian Imperial Pigeon
Ducula aurorae
Polynesian Imperial Pigeon is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Ducula aurorae, recorded as Endangered and tied to French Polynesia.
Appearance
Its plumage is silver-grey on its head and most of underparts with dark bronzy-green upperparts and black undertail-coverts.
This pigeon is approximately 51 cm tall.
Range and habitat
The Polynesian imperial pigeon or Society Islands pigeon is a bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss. It feeds on fruit of a great variety of native and introduced trees. A 2009 estimate suggested a current population size of only 1000-1600 individuals.
Polynesian Imperial Pigeon 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 Polynesian Imperial Pigeon, Wikidata item Q1275352. 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.
