Tooth-billed pigeon found

From one point of view, fantastic news :)

From the other point of view, the fact it has been ten years since the last sighting despite many searches for the species suggests numbers may be at a critical, or indeed unrecoverable, level. Either way, the next few years will be critical for this species.
 
It is not; nor has it been held anywhere since the very start of the 1900's with the exception of one very short-lived individual at Berlin Zoo, which survived from 27 May 1982 until 30 August of the same year.
 
Chlidonias was looking for them just last year. Unsuccessfully.

But this is a great find!

:p

Hix
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It is not; nor has it been held anywhere since the very start of the 1900's with the exception of one very short-lived individual at Berlin Zoo, which survived from 27 May 1982 until 30 August of the same year.
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Actually, there is a newish-looking photo of Tooth-billed Pigeon in an aviary reprinted with some online articles (and easily findable in the search engines).

Nobody on birdforum could trace where and when it was taken - possibly in some local aviary in Samoa.
 
Jurek7 said:
Actually, there is a newish-looking photo of Tooth-billed Pigeon in an aviary reprinted with some online articles (and easily findable in the search engines).

Nobody on birdforum could trace where and when it was taken - possibly in some local aviary in Samoa.
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I assume you mean one of the following images....

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Although occasionally credited online as belonging to the researcher Rebecca Stirnemann, who has been active in recent years investigating the survival of the pigeon, all of the above photographs were taken in the 1980s and early 1990s by Dr Ulf Beichle, who spent this period conducting a detailed study of the species.
 
this is very good news indeed.

From memory those captive photos were taken at the National University of Samoa in Apia (there are no longer any captive in Samoa)
 
Hix said:
Chlidonias was looking for them just last year. Unsuccessfully.
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....and this makes me want to go back there and try all over again!! I never really gave the manumea a proper go that visit because I wanted to also see all the other endemics so it was a matter of limited time. If I return I would go to Savai'i for the white-eye; probably back to that accursed valley at Vaisigano for the mao so I can get some proper looks; the blue-crowned lorikeet is an essential requirement; but the manumea would be the major objective.
 
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