Endangered
Timor Green Pigeon
Treron psittaceus
Timor Green Pigeon is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Treron psittaceus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Timor green pigeon is a bird in the family Columbidae.
Range and habitat
The Timor green pigeon is found on the islands of Rote, Timor, Semau, and Atauro in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It inhabits primary forest, monsoon forest, and secondary forest with tall trees in lowlands, occurring up to altitudes of 160 m (520 ft). It is found on the islands of Rote and Timor.
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.
Timor 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 Timor Green Pigeon, Wikidata item Q675962. 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.
