On the natural history of West African Rock Dove Columba gymnocycla

van Grouw, Hein; Hernández-Alonso, Germán

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van Grouw, Hein

Hernández-Alonso, Germán

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2025-09-01

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2025-03-10

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Abstract

Named in 1856, West African Rock Dove Columba livia gymnocycla differs markedly in appearance from other Rock Dove subspecies. Recent DNA analyses have revealed that gymnocycla is also genetically very different from Columba livia, warranting species status for this taxon. The species was never abundant in its small distribution, and only a small number of specimens are present in museum collections. A search for the species in Senegambia in 2024 was unsuccessful and C. gymnocycla may have already vanished from much or all of its distribution.

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Hein van Grouw, Germán Hernández-Alonso "On the natural history of West African Rock Dove Columba gymnocycla," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 145(3), 304-314, (1 September 2025)

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Copyright © 2025 The Authors; This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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