Blue Pigeon
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Alectroenas is a genus of bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s in the Columbidae family.

It contains the following species:
  • Madagascar Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas madagascariensis)
  • Comoro Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas sganzini)
  • Mauritius Blue Pigeon
    Mauritius Blue Pigeon
    The Mauritius Blue Pigeon or Pigeon Hollandais is an extinct species of pigeon formerly endemic to Mauritius...

     (Alectroenas nitidissima)
    Extinction
    In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...

  • Seychelles Blue Pigeon
    Seychelles Blue Pigeon
    The Seychelles Blue Pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon which inhabits woodland areas of the granitic Seychelles archipelago....

     (Alectroenas pulcherrima)


The extinct Rodrigues Grey Pigeon
Rodrigues Grey Pigeon
The Rodrigues Grey Pigeon is an extinct species of pigeon formerly endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. It is known from a subfossil sternum and some other bones, and the descriptions of Leguat and Julien Tafforet . It was a bird the size of a Tambourine Dove and colored slate grey...

 (Alectroenas rodericana) is usually assigned to the genus Alectroenas, but this is erroneous. In reality, it probably belongs to an undescribed genus, as the sternum's shape is very dissimilar in its details to that of Alectroenas or Columba, and indeed to any other living genus of pigeons and doves. It is most similar to that of the Gallicolumba
Gallicolumba
Gallicolumba is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves which occur in rainforests on the Philippines, Indonesia, and in the Pacific region. They are not closely related to the American ground-doves...

ground doves or to a miniature version of the sternum of a Ducula
Ducula
Ducula is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae; these pigeons are very large and are called imperial pigeons. Most imperial pigeon species show contrasting light coloration of the head, neck, and belly with darker back and wings...

imperial pigeon.

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