Savaiʻi
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Savaiʻi is the largest and highest island both in Samoa and in the Samoan Islands chain. The island is also the sixth largest in Polynesia, behind the three main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiia
Savaiʻi volcano, as seen from the NASA's EO-1 satellite in July 2010
Studio photo depicting the Samoa ʻava ceremony, 1911
Two men fishing from canoe, 1914
Charles Wilkes
Tooth-billed pigeon
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The tooth-billed pigeon, also known as the manumea, is a large pigeon found only in Samoa. It is the only living species of genus Didunculus. A related extinct species, the Tongan tooth-billed pigeon,
Savaiʻi
…around Mt Silisili, and Samoan moorhen (Gallinula pacifica), which was last recorded in 1873 near Aopo with possible sightings in 1984 and 2003. The tooth-billed pigeon, (Didunculus strigirostris), also known as the manumea is also endemic and now increasingly rare, leading to the current proposition to upgrade it to…
Naturalis Biodiversity Center ZMA.AVES.56900 Didunculus strigirostris Jardine, 1845 Columbidae skin specimen
Illustration by John Gould (probably from stuffed specimens)
Illustration in habitat by Gustav Mützel
Live specimen, 1901