Madeiran wood pigeon

noun

An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon †Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.

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nounMadeiran wood pigeon (plural Madeiran wood pigeons)

plural Madeiran wood pigeons

  1. An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon †Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.

    Little can be said of the Madeiran wood pigeon except that it vanished from Madeira during the early years of the twentieth century.

    2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 173
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