| 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Extinct Family/Sub-family Columbidae Species name author (Stejneger, 1887) Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) |
Summary Columba jouyi was endemic to Okinawa and Kerama, and the Daito Islands, in the Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan2. It was described in 1887 from a type in the Tokyo Educational Museum3, and is also known from three skins in Tring1. It apparently declined rapidly (and inexplicably), and was last recorded on Okinawa in 1904, and on Daito in 19362. |
Ecology: It is likely to have inhabited the forested interior of the islands on which it lived.
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Threats It is not known why it became extinct.
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References 1. Knox and Walters (1994). 2. Stattersfield et al. (1998). 3. Stejneger (1887).
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Text account compilers Tom Brooks (Conservation International), Simon Mahood (BirdLife International) |
IUCN Red List evaluators Jeremy Bird (BirdLife International), Tom Brooks (Conservation International), Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), Alison Stattersfield (BirdLife International) |
| Recommended citation BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Columba jouyi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/2/2010 |
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List. To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums |
