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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:31:40 GMT
sebbe wrote
Ptilinopus mercierii This was a pigeon which once lived among the Marquesas Islands it had has recently been splited in two subspecies both are extinct today
Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii
This once lived on Nukuhiva and it become extinct in on the island 1922 the reason was the great horned owl.
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:33:03 GMT
sebbe wrote
there is pictures on both subspecies in HBW volume 4
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:34:14 GMT
noisi wrote Hi ! Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii  Bye Alex Hi ! ... would that not be beautiful ...  Bye Alex |
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:35:20 GMT
sebbe wrote
Nuku Hivia Red-mustached Fruit Dove Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii
last observed ca. 1849 on Nuku Hivia
arboreal island forest herbivore endemic to Marquesas Islands, Pacific Ocean
disappeared after introduction of rats
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:36:35 GMT
sebbe wrote
There is very little that can be said about the Marques fruit dove, apart from hte suggestion that it seems extinct. Sometimes called red-moustached fruit-dove (a name that aptly described it), it was an inhabitant of at least two of the Marquesas islands, Nukuhiva and Hivoa, far out in the middle of the south Pacific. It seems that it was a bird of the forest canopy which lived at the islands higer elevations, but it has not been seen for many, many years. Two races are described, rare mercierii came from Nukuhiva and the race tristrami from Hivoa. As far as can be ascertained, the Hivoa birds lasted rather longer than their counterparts and seem to have survived until at least the 1920s. From Nukuhiva the species may have been gone by the middle of the nineteenth century altough the records are not clear. The remote home islands of this dove where not often visited by ornithologists so it is not possible to make meaningful judgements. Even as late as 1985, a search was being made for survivors but it net with no success; nor could any islanders be found who remembered the bird, altough long before it had gone by the name of "pati".
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:37:25 GMT
melanie wrote Red-moustached Fruit-dove Ptilinopus mercierii was endemic to forest in the Marquesas, French Polynesia, with the nominate subspecies on Nuku Hiva and subspecies tristrami on Hiva Oa. While the former is only known from the type collected during the 1836–1839 voyage of the Venus, the latter is known from at least 11 specimens, the last collected by the Whitney Expedition in 1922. The species was reported on Hiva Oa in 1980, but this was probably a mistake. Its extinction has been attributed to predation by the introduced Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus, as well as by introduced rats and cats www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=18780 |
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:38:11 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:40:27 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:41:50 GMT
 gap in nature |
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Post by another specialist on Aug 19, 2007 19:45:03 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Mar 22, 2008 11:35:22 GMT
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Post by Melanie on May 14, 2015 11:54:21 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Feb 14, 2016 16:25:18 GMT
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