Bonin Wood Pigeon
Columba versicolor

Range and population
Columba versicolor was endemic to Nakondo Shima and Peel Island (Chichi-juma) in the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto), Japan². It is known from four specimens, in Frankfurt , Leningrad and Tring¹. It was last recorded in 1889, with its extinction presumably resulting from clearance of the islands' subtropical evergreen forest, and from predation by introduced cats and rats³. Japanese Wood-Pigeon C. janthina has also become extinct in the Bonin Islands , and on Kita-iwo-jima and Iwo-jima immediately to the south, although survives on other offshore Japanese islands³.

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