Gallicolumba nui (Great Ground Dove)

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Hi !

This is also called Giant Ground Dove and must have been one of the largest members of its genus, if not the largest. But I have no idea how large it was.

It lived on the Marquesas and on other island-groups, for example on the Cook Islands and the Society Islands.

Maybe it was good to hunt and so it died out when ever human reached its island homes.

Goodby Giant Groud Dove

If someone knows more, don't be afraid to tell it !

Bye Alex

[another specialist]

Gallicolumba nui
Steadman 1992
Holocene (1000-2000 years old) of Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, sc Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: tarsometatarsus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: tarsometatarsi, Other: mandibula, sterna, coracoïdea, scapulae, humeri, ulnae, ulnare, carpometacarpi, phalanx digitalis majoris I, tibiotarsi

David W. Steadman,
New species of Gallicolumba and Macropygia (Aves: Columbidae) from archeological sites in Polynesia
in Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb, ed Jonathan J. Becker Science series Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 36 (1992): 329-348

[Melanie]

COMMON NAMES: Giant Ground-Dove

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Resident Breeder, Endemic of Cook Islands, Extinct; Land

cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=14279

[another specialist]

source for my entry above

www.ornitaxa.com/SM/Fossil/FossilColumb.htm

[another specialist]

Huahine Ground Dove
(Gallicolumba sp.)

distribution:

Huahine / Society Islands

This yet unnamed form is only known on the basis of subfossil bones.

It may be identical with the Giant Ground Dove (Gallicolumba nui).

www.extinct.minks-lang.de/7voegel/a.birdsarten.a-m/gallicolumba.sp.huahine1.htm

[another specialist]

Mangaia Ground Dove, Gallicolumba sp. (Mangaia, Cook Islands) - G. nui?