Critically Endangered
Purple-winged Ground Dove
Paraclaravis geoffroyi
Purple-winged Ground Dove is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Paraclaravis geoffroyi, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Range and habitat
The purple-winged ground dove is a critically endangered species of dove, native to the Atlantic forest, mainly near bamboo, in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and northern-eastern Argentina (Misiones only). It is threatened by habitat loss and possibly the wild bird trade, and could potentially even be extinct due to its specialized requirements.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
This specialized lifestyle may be what led to such a dramatic decline in the species' population despite its relatively large former range, with the mass deforestation of the Atlantic forest in the late 20th century triggering an Allee effect akin to its extinct relative the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), that also depended on masting events of nut-producing trees.
In crisis
Purple-winged Ground Dove 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 the English Wikipedia article on Purple-winged Ground Dove, Wikidata item Q83021166. 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.
