What is it about?
clarifying and improving knowledge about the critically endangered Tooth-billed Pigeon, endemic of Samoa, through making good use of indigenous ecological knowledge available at village level.
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Why is it important?
the bird is at the brink of extinction while the knowledge about its population size, distribution, ecology and behaviour is extremely scant. for the first time it is suggested that the call of this bird is overlapped with the call of a co-existing very common pigeon. therefore all past estimates based on the call may be biased.
Perspectives
I believe this paper - the first peer-reviewed conservation paper on this species - can be used to make a case with the Samoan decision makers in order to step up conservation efforts before it is to late.
Gianluca Serra
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This page is a summary of: Traditional ecological knowledge of the Critically Endangered Tooth-billed Pigeon Didunculus strigirostris, endemic to Samoa, Bird Conservation International, December 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0959270917000259.
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