Ducula aurorae
The Polynesian imperial pigeon or Society Islands pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
RyanStudiesBirds · 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
- Polynesian imperial-pigeonPBDB
- Sits inside
- DuculaPBDB
- 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 Ducula aurorae 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.
Ducula aurorae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ducula aurorae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Todiramphus tutus3 sites
- Alopecoenas erythropterus2 sites
- Ducula galeata2 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis2 sites
- Acrocephalus caffer1 site
- Acrocephalus kerearako1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Aerodramus sawtelli1 site
- Anous minutus1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Aplonis diluvialis1 site
- Ardenna pacifica1 site
- Butorides striata1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Egretta sacra1 site
- Fregata1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Fregata minor1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallicolumba nui1 site
- Gallirallus ripleyi1 site
- Gallirallus storrsolsoni1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Gygis alba1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ducula aurorae, 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- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands1
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
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 Ducula aurorae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- RyanStudiesBirds
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- 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 itDucula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peale 1848)