| Polynesian ground dove | |
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| Illustration of both the albicollis (left) and erythroptera (right) color morphs by John Gerrard Keulemans, 1893 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Pampusana |
| Species: | P. erythroptera
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| Binomial name | |
| Pampusana erythroptera (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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The Polynesian ground dove or Society Islands ground dove (Pampusana erythroptera) or Tutururu is a critically endangered species of bird in the family Columbidae. Originally endemic to the Society Islands and Tuamotus in French Polynesia, it has now been extirpated from most of its former range by habitat loss and predation by introduced species such as cats and rats, and the species is now endemic only in the Acteon islands. The total population is estimated to be around 100-120 birds.
It favors tropical forests, especially with Pandanus tectorius, Pisonia grandis and shrubs, but it has also been recorded from dense shrub growing below coconut palms.
A rat eradication campaign from 2015 to 2017 has allowed the ground dove to reestablish itself on Tenarunga.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Alopecoenas erythropterus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 137.