Status
The provenance and the reasons for its extinction remain unknown. Scientists have hypothesized that this species lived on an island with no main predators, owing to its small wings. It is also possible that it lived in forest, due to its mottled green colouration. Ornithologist David Gibbs also hypothesized that this bird might have collected on a Pacific island, due to stories told by Tahitian islanders in 1928 about a mysterious green and white spotted bird called titi, which might well have been about this pigeon. However, paleontologist David Steadman revised this hypothesis and stated that the name titi is used for several bird species in French Polynesia, in particular for the procellariids. In 1851, a juvenile specimen came into the museum collection of the Earl of Derby in Knowsley Hall which is now on display in the World Museum Liverpool. A second specimen which was collected between 1783 and 1823 is lost. BirdLife International added the Liverpool Pigeon to the list of extinct bird species in 2008.
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