Ryukyu Wood Pigeon - Columba jouyi
( Stejneger, 1887 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: Not Listed
IUCN Status: Extinct
U.S. ESA Status: Not Listed

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Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It is likely to have inhabited the forested interior of the islands on which it lived.


Range:
Columba jouyi was endemic to Okinawa and Kerama, and the Daito Islands, in the Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan (Stattersfield et al. 1998). It was described in 1887 from a type in the Tokyo Educational Museum (Stejneger 1887), and is also known from three skins in the Natural History Museum at Tring (Knox and Walters 1994). It apparently declined rapidly (and inexplicably), and was last recorded on Okinawa in 1904, and on Daito in 1936 (Stattersfield et al. 1998).


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