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Post by Melanie on Jan 5, 2006 0:35:54 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jan 6, 2006 7:15:13 GMT
nicely done Melanie
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Post by another specialist on May 1, 2006 20:46:15 GMT
 another from my computer |
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Post by sebbe67 on Jun 2, 2006 21:37:21 GMT
According to the book Pigeons and doves, published 2002, this bird wasent endemic to Choiseul they say to have evidence that this bird once occured more widely than on just Choiseul.
"It is very unusual to find an old endemic with no obvious affinities to other sepcies on a island with no other endemic species. This strongly suggest that Choiseul is not the entire historical range of Microgoura meeki but that it probably once occured on Bougainville or Santa Isabel or both, and there are old reports from locals that it once occured on Santa Isabel and also on Malaita. This unique has not been seen since six or seven specimens were obtained by Meek in 1904. All these specimens were probably taken near Choiseul bay in the north of the Island. The most recent report comes from the Kolombangara river in the 1940s. It seems likely that it rapidly succumed to the depredations of feral cats, and on some small islands which cats may not have reached, to clearence of the habitat for plantations, and that it is now extinct. Its only hope of survival would be on small cat-less islands, it has been searched for without sucess on Rob Roy and Wagina off the south-east of Choiseul, altough the latter at least is already infested with cats."
some info about the size.
Overall length, male 313mm; wing, male 195-197mm, female 180-190mm; tail 100-105mm; bill including bare shield 34-35mm; tarsus 55-60mm. Weight apparently unrecorded.
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Post by Melanie on Jun 3, 2006 1:14:54 GMT
Interesting new info. Thanks for the update.
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Post by another specialist on Jun 3, 2006 7:46:02 GMT
Thanks sebbe67 very interesting
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Post by sebbe67 on Jun 5, 2006 18:17:56 GMT
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Post by RSN on May 5, 2007 21:51:13 GMT
What book the pic above came from?
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Post by sebbe67 on May 5, 2007 23:25:13 GMT
What book the pic above came from? Taken from Pigeons And Doves A Guide To The Pigeons And Doves Of The World by David Gibbs/Eustace Barnes/John Cox |
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Post by RSN on May 5, 2007 23:57:08 GMT
Thanks for the info Sebbe. Did these book have dodo or solitaire pic?
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Post by Melanie on Oct 12, 2008 15:22:18 GMT
 Source: Walter Rothschid Novitates Zoologicae Volume 12, 1904 |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 8, 2011 7:56:07 GMT
Tennent, W. John. (2009). A cat among the pigeons! Known specimens and supposed distribution of the extinct Solomons Crested Pigeon Microgoura meeki Rothschild, 1904. Bull. B.O.C. 129(4): 241-253. Available online: www.kuvojo.com/microgouratennent.pdf |
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Post by Melanie on Oct 8, 2011 9:22:51 GMT
Thanks for the link. It is interesting to see photos of the holotype and to learn somewhat more about the work of the collector A S Meek (which stands for Albert Stewart Meek, and not for Alfred Stanley or Alfred Stewart Meek as stated in several books and articles.) |
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Post by Peter on Oct 8, 2011 19:21:16 GMT
Thank you indeed. Very interesting pdf and great to see the museum specimen.
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Post by Melanie on Dec 31, 2011 6:44:43 GMT
Did you know that the Choiseul Crested Pigeon is depicted on the official flag of the Choiseul province? Here it is  EDIT Peter: Melanie, I've changed the link, so that it shows a smaller version. |
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Post by surroundx on Feb 2, 2014 12:59:11 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Apr 20, 2014 8:18:56 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Oct 4, 2015 15:13:26 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Nov 28, 2015 17:12:08 GMT
 right below "Living Things Vanished from the Earth (in Japanese)" by Toshio Inomata (1993) with Samoan Moorhen, Bay Thrush(?), Tahiti rail, and Tahitian Sandpiper (clockwise). |
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