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The tooth-billed pigeon is a medium-sized, approximately 31 centimetres (12 in) long, dark pigeon with reddish feet and red bare skin around the eye. The underparts, head and neck are greyish with a slight blue-green iridescence, and the tail, wings-coverts and tertials are rufous chestnut, while the remaining remiges are blackish. It has a large, curved, and hooked bright red bill, with tooth-like projections on the lower mandible which let them act as seed dispensers.
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When to see the Tooth-billed Pigeon
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Tooth-billed Pigeon
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Tooth-billed Pigeon
The tooth-billed pigeon, also known as the manumea, is a large pigeon found only in Samoa. It is the only living species of genus Didunculus. A related extinct species, the Tongan tooth-billed pigeon, is only known from subfossil remains in several archeological sites in Tonga. The tooth-billed pigeon is the national bird of Samoa and featured on the 20 tālā bills and the 50 sene pieces of the 2008/2011 series. Native only to Samoa's primary rainforest, it is considered to be endangered, with only a few hundred individuals thought to remain in existence.
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Easily confused with
Marquesan Ground DovePampusana rubescensThe Marquesan ground dove or Marquesas ground dove is a bird species in the family Columbidae.
Tawitawi Brown DovePhapitreron cinereicepsThe Tawitawi brown dove, also dark-eared brown dove, is a threatened species of bird in the family Columbidae noted for its orange-peach breast.
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