Madeiran wood pigeon

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Noun

Madeiran wood pigeon (plural Madeiran wood pigeons)

  1. An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon, Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.
    • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 173:
      Little can be said of the Madeiran wood pigeon except that it vanished from Madeira during the early years of the twentieth century.
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