Data Sheet Info

White-tailed Laurel-pigeon, Columba junoniae, is a species of pigeon found in woodland and forest and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems.

Columba junoniae is endemic to the Canary Islands and has a breeding population size of 1000-2500 individuals and a breeding range size of 1800 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Unknown in the short term and Increasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Columba junoniae was assessed as Near Threatened, because the species comes close to meeting the IUCN Red List criteria at the EU27 scale.