Nicobar Pigeon

The Nicobar pigeon is hailed as one of the most beautiful pigeons in the world.

Habitat - It is native to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Malay Archipelago and some islands of Micronesia.
Features - It is draped in a colorful plumage, with hues of green, blue, yellow and copper that explode into a bomb of colors in the sunlight.
The bird’s feathers are iridescent due to the many layers of keratin air sacs in the feathers.
Females Nicobar Pigeons are smaller in size than their male counterpart.
Extinct birds - DNA studies have shown that it is also the only living cousin of extinct birds like the dodo, the Rodrigues solitaire of Madagascar and the spotted green pigeon of the Pacific Islands.

Subspecies - There are two subspecies of Nicobar Pigeon, one is endemic to Palau Island in the Pacific Ocean, and the other subspecies is found in all other parts of its range.
IUCN status - This species is classified as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List and listed in Appendix 1 of CITES as their numbers in the wild are on the decline.

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