Marquesan Ground-Dove

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

The Marquesan Ground-Dove is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Marquesan Ground-dove (Gallicolumba rubescens) is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It was formerly classified as Endangered by the IUCN. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed. Consequently, it is downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008. Footnotes - 1. More

The Marquesan ground-dove is a little known ground-dwelling bird restricted to two small islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The head and chest of this small species is ashy grey, while the rest of the body is mostly black, except for variable patches of white on the wings and tail, and reddish-purple feathers on the shoulders and upper back. More