Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Columba > Columba junoniaeColumba junoniae (Laurel Pigeon)The laurel pigeon or white-tailed laurel pigeon (Paloma rabiche) (Columba junoniae) is a species of bird in the Columba genus in the family Columbidae. It is a member of the family Columbidae of doves and pigeons, which is endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain. This wood pigeon is endemic to the laurel forest habitat. It is the animal symbol of the island of La Gomera. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.83961 EDGE Score: 2.87239 |
| Birth Weight [1] | 19.8 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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El Canal y Los Tiles laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Garajonay National Park |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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La Caldera de Taburiente National Park |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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La Palma laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Las Mercedes, Mina y Yedra, Aguirre, La Goleta, and Pedro Alvarez mountains |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Las Vueltas, Aguas Negras and Quebradas mountains |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1 |
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Mountain of Agua, gully of Los Cochinos and gully of Cuevas Negras |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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San Andrés, Pijaral and Anaga mountains |
Spain |
A1, B2, C1 |
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Santa Trsula and La Victoria laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, B2, C1, C6 |
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Step rocks of Hermigua and Agulo |
Spain |
A1, B2, C1, C6 |
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Tigaiga slope |
Spain |
A1, B2, C1, C6 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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