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Caloenas nicobarica

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NICOBAR PIGEON Caloenas nicobarica # Near Threatened

Local name Man Fmar Mandwan (Sansundi).

Range C. n. nicobarica Ayawi, Numfor, Mios Num, and Kumbur and Nutabari in the Auri archipelago.

Status Resident? Collected on ‘Biak’ in May 1915 by Feuilletau de Bruyn (Hartert 1932) who reported that the species used to be common but was nearly extirpated (Feuilletau de Bruyn 1941). Reported during October‒March on Kumbur and Nutabari in the Auri archipelago, south-west Teluk Cenderawasih (Mitchell 1989), whilst Gibbs (1993) stated ‘Apparently August to December there is a large colony of Nicobar Pigeons breeding on Ayawi Island’, 62 km north-west of Supiori. Ajawai (Ayawi) was also listed by Mayr (1941). Gibbs (1993) saw an immature in Biak town market. It has not been reported on Biak since.

Notes

Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130

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Journal article: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/11642130 (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298463/taxon/03AB878AFFC3E128A38FFF16FC34FDC1.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Caloenas
Species
nicobarica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Caloenas nicobarica (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Bishop, 2023

References

  • Hartert, E. 1932. Liste der Vogel aus Neuguinea im Buitenzorger Museum in Java. Nova Guinea 15: 435 - 484.
  • Feuilletau de Bruyn, W. K. H. 1941. Iets over de fauna van de Schouten-eilanden en de jacht en vischvangst der Biaksi. Nieuw Guinea 5: 162 - 173.
  • Mitchell, A. 1989. Nicobar nesting colonies in Irian Jaya. Kukila 4: 51 - 52.
  • Gibbs, D. 1993. Irian Jaya 1991. Unpubl. report.
  • Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea birds. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York.