Family: Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Authority: (Ramsay, 1882)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
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.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial