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The species Choiseul Pigeon is extinct.

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Microgoura meeki

[edit] Identification

30cm

• Dark blue crest
• Black face
• Reddish head
• Dark blue breast and mantle
• Brown-tinged lower back
• Olive brown wings and rump
• Chestnut belly
• Dark brown purplish tail
• Black upper bill
• Red lower bill
• Purple-red legs

[edit] Distribution

Formerly Choiseul Island (north-western Solomon Islands).

Extinct; last reported 1904.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia
3. BirdLife International

• List of references

[edit] External Links