Prize-winning animal of the German Bird Association.
Conservation status
Extinct in the Wild (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Columbiformes
Family:
Columbidae
Genus:
Zenaida
Species:
Z. graysoni
Binomial name
Zenaida graysoni
(Lawrence, 1871)
Synonyms
Zenaida macroura graysoni
The Socorro dove or Grayson's dove (Zenaida graysoni) is a dove that is extinct in the wild. It was endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands off the west coast of Mexico. The last sighting in its natural habitat was in 1972 and it only survives in captivity. A reintroduction program is being prepared.[2][3]
It is a close relative of the mourning and eared doves, particularly the former[4] and was at one time considered a subspecies. In captivity, it hybridizes with the former and almost all privately owned birds as well as several of the captive breeding program birds are known or strongly suspected to be hybrids. These are excluded from the reintroduction program as there is evidence of unique adaptations in the Socorro species. The scientific name commemorates Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte and the American ornithologist and artist Andrew Jackson Grayson.
^BirdLife International (2020). "Zenaida graysoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22690740A178409463. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22690740A178409463.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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^Johnson, Kevin P.; Clayton, Dale H. (2000). "A Molecular Phylogeny of the Dove Genus Zenaida: Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences". The Condor. 102 (4): 864. doi:10.1650/0010-5422(2000)102[0864:AMPOTD]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0010-5422. S2CID 43991079.
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ornithologist Andrew Jackson Grayson, who discovered the Socorrodove, Socorro mockingbird and the Socorro elf owl which were later given scientific names in...
factors. In some cases, they may be extinct in the wild, as is the Socorrodove of Socorro Island, Mexico, last seen in the wild in 1972, driven to extinction...
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