Profile
In flight
Pigeons & Doves
Nicobar Pigeon
Caloenas nicobarica
- epic
- 64 km/h
- Near Threatened
Iridescent green and copper with a flowing hackle — the dodo's closest living cousin in feather form.
- Population
- Unquantified and declining
- Habitat
- Forest on small offshore islands; forages in forest and cultivated areas
- Fun fact
- It is the closest living relative of the extinct dodo and Rodrigues solitaire.
- Range
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands through Southeast Asia to the Philippines, Solomons, and Palau
- Diet
- Seeds, fruit, buds, and grain
- Size
- 0.36 m
- Wingspan
- 0.65 m
