Endangered
São Tomé Green Pigeon
Treron sanctithomae
São Tomé Green Pigeon is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Treron sanctithomae, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The São Tomé green pigeon is a bird in the family Columbidae.
The species was described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the island of São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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
São Tomé Green 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 São Tomé Green Pigeon, Wikidata item Q1080382. 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.
