Extinct Pigeon Represents New Genus (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Extinct Pigeon Represents New Genus

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The leg bones of Tongoenas burleyi "clearly put it in the canopy, fruit-eating group" of pigeons, ornithologist David Steadman said. But it also had distinctive characteristics that marked it as an undescribed genus and not a member of the Ducula genus, represented here by a red-knobbed imperial pigeon.

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