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Article: Population monitoring of Plain Pigeons in Puerto Rico.
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Plain Pigeons (Columba inornata) are endemic to the Greater Antilles, where they are threatened or endangered mainly by habitat loss and hunting (Wiley 1985, Perez-Rivera 1990, Strong and Johnson 2001). Plain Pigeons were common and widespread in Puerto Rico during the 1800s (Gundlach 1878, Wetmore 1916) but became nearly extinct between the 1920s and 1930s (Danforth 1931). They reportedly were hunted between the 1940s and 1960s, and a small population was found at the municipality of Cidra in eastcentral Puerto Rico in 1963 (Leopold 1963). Plain Pigeons endured a population bottleneck between the 1920s and 1960s (Miyamoto et al. 1994) and were listed as endangered in 1970 ...
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