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Post by Melanie on May 18, 2005 18:53:35 GMT
these species have lived between 3000 and 500 years BC. Ducula david, a pigeon also known from Uvea (Wallis Island), north of Fiji (35) and Lifuka, www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/90/3/818.pdfFive others (Megapodius alimentum, M. pritchardii, Gallicolumba stairi, Ducula david, and Ducula new sp.) survived into human times elsewhere in Tonga (2, 6, 46) and thus may have done so on 'Eua as well. www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/90/3/818.pdf |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 5, 2005 17:29:17 GMT
Ducula david
Balouet & Olson 1987
Holocene of 'Eua, Tonga, sc Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: right tarsometatarsus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: fragment left coracoïd, anterior part left scapula
Jean Christophe Balouet & Storrs L. Olson,
A new extinct species of giant pigeon (Columbidae: Ducula) from archaeological deposits on Wallis (Uvea) Island, South Pacific
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100 (1987): 769-775
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Post by Melanie on Oct 30, 2005 13:55:10 GMT
Ducula david of Wallis Island was characterised by being larger than all known congeners (Balouet & Olson 1987), including D. goliath and D. galeata, which are slightly smaller and less robust (Steadman 1989b). Material from Lifuka (Steadman 1989b) and 'Eua (Steadman 1995; Steadman & Freifeld 1999) has been referred to D. david. www.rsnz.org/publish/jrsnz/2001/40.pdf |
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Post by another specialist on Oct 31, 2005 9:48:51 GMT
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2005 20:35:08 GMT
Great name if ever I saw one.
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Post by another specialist on Nov 4, 2005 6:10:35 GMT
;D yes, David lol
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Nov 19, 2005 19:27:17 GMT
Especially since it was actually larger than Ducula goliath  |
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Post by another specialist on Nov 19, 2005 22:05:49 GMT
that a good point dysmorodrepanis  |
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Post by another specialist on May 1, 2006 20:52:13 GMT
 another from my computer |
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Post by sordes on Aug 20, 2007 8:19:05 GMT
Those giant Ducula species like Ducula david or Ducula lakeba were probably a bit more than 50cm in length and weighed about 1kg, if you compare it with the living D. goliath, which is nearly the same size. This is not really giant, but very big for a pigeon.
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Post by another specialist on Aug 20, 2007 21:47:25 GMT
Steadman's Imperial Pigeon, Ducula david ('Eua, Tonga, and Wallis Island)
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Post by another specialist on Sept 9, 2008 18:26:16 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Mar 21, 2015 2:11:31 GMT
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