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Giant, fruit-gulping pigeon eaten into extinction on Pacific islands – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/giant-fruit-gulping-pigeon-eaten-into-extinction/

A large fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the dodo in the lineup of giant island pigeons hunted to extinction. Fossils show that Tongoenas burleyi, a newly described genus and species, inhabited the Pacific islands for at least 60,000 years, but vanished within a century or two of human arrival
G. cristata is one of the largest living pigeon species and is native to New Guinea

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