Thick-Billed Ground-Dove (Pampusana salamonis)
Posted on 31 December, 1927 in Extinct • Tagged with Solomon Islands (Makira), family-COLUMBIDAE, extinct-1920s
Year Last Seen:
1927
Comments:
This species was known from Makira, Solomon Islands, but is now Extinct as a result of habitat destruction, predation by introduced species and over-hunting. The last record is a specimen dating from 1927, and searches in 1995 and more recently failed to find it.
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