Nesoenas mayeri
The pink pigeon is a species of pigeon in the family Columbidae endemic to Mauritius. The pink pigeon nearly became extinct in the 1970s and the 1990s and is still very rare. It is the only Mascarene pigeon that has not become extinct. It was on the brink of extinction in 1991 when only 10 individuals remained, but its numbers have increased due to the efforts of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since 1977. While the population remains at below 500 birds as of 2011, the IUCN downlisted the species from critically endangered to endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2000, and then downlisted it again to vulnerable in 2018.
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- pink pigeonPBDB
- Sits inside
- NesoenasPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nesoenas mayeri on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Nesoenas mayeri and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nesoenas mayeri and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Circus maillardi3 sites
- Lophopsittacus mauritianus3 sites
- Otus sauzieri3 sites
- Alectroenas nitidissimus2 sites
- Aphanapteryx bonasia2 sites
- Fulica newtonii2 sites
- Hypsipetes olivaceus2 sites
- Lalage typica2 sites
- Lophopsittacus bensoni2 sites
- Raphus cucullatus2 sites
- Alexandrinus echo1 site
- Allopeas1 site
- Alopochen mauritianus1 site
- Anas theodori1 site
- Bulinus1 site
- Columba thiriouxi1 site
- Cryptopsar ischyrhynchus1 site
- Cyclotopsis1 site
- Cylindraspis inepta1 site
- Cylindraspis triserrata1 site
- Egretta garzetta dimorpha1 site
- Foudia rubra1 site
- Gyraulus1 site
- Leiolopisma mauritiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nesoenas mayeri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species1
- Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)1
- On additional bones of the Dodo and other extinct birds of Mauritius obtained by Mr. Théodore Sauzier1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nesoenas mayeri
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nesoenas mayeri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pink pigeon”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNesoenas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Prévost and Knip 1843)