Blue pigeon
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The blue pigeons are a genus, Alectroenas, of birds in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. They are native to islands in the western Indian Ocean.
Seychelles Blue Pigeon
Dodo by Julian P. Hume
Mauritius blue pigeon
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The Mauritius blue pigeon is an extinct species of blue pigeon formerly endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. It has two extinct relatives from the Masca
Blue pigeon
…native to islands in the western Indian Ocean. The genus Alectroenas was first described in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the Mauritius blue pigeon (Alectroenas nitidissimus) as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek alektruōn, meaning "domestic cock", and oinas, meaning "pigeon…
Mauritius Blue Pigeon national museum of scotland
Illustration of a stuffed specimen published with Sonnerat's 1782 description
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume showing accurate blue legs
Subfossil tarsometatarsus leg-bone in Naturalis Biodiversity Center