Caloenas canacorum

† Caloenas canacorum was an extinct species of Nicobar-pigeon relative known from subfossil bones from Tonga and New Caledonia in the Pacific. Related to the living Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), it was a large, flightless or near-flightless herbivorous pigeon that subsisted on seeds and fruit. Its extinction likely resulted from Polynesian settlement of the Pacific islands. It is closely related to the ancestor of the dodo and Rodrigues solitaire, illustrating island gigantism in columbi