Great ground dove

Great ground dove
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Gallicolumba
Species:	G. nui
Binomial name
Gallicolumba nui Steadman, 1992[1]

The great ground dove (Gallicolumba nui) is an extinct species of bird in the Columbidae family. It was found in Mangaia in the southern Cook Islands,^[2] and in French Polynesia where subfossil bones between 1-2000 years old have been found in the Marquesas, as well as between 750-1250 years old at the Fa'ahia early occupation site on Huahine in the Society Islands.^[3]

Notes

1. Steadman (1992).
2. Steadman (2006).
3. Kirchman & Steadman (2006).

References

• Kirchman, Jeremy J.; & Steadman, David W. (Online publication 2006). New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) From an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands. Pacific Science 60: 281.
• Steadman, David W. (1992). New species of Gallicolumba and Macropygia (Aves: Columbidae) from archeological sites in Polynesia. In: Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb, ed Jonathan J. Becker Science series Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 36 (1992): 329-348.
• Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and biogeography of tropical Pacific birds. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-77142-7
• Steadman, David W.; & Pahlavan, Dominique S. (Online publication 21 December 2006). Extinction and biogeography of birds on huahine, society islands, French Polynesia. Geoarchaeology 7(5): 449-483.