Rodrigues pigeon

Rodrigues pigeon
Subfossil bones, 1873. The bones below (2) where originally assigned to the Malagasy turtle dove
Conservation status
Extinct (mid-18th century)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Nesoenas
Species:	†N. rodericanus
Binomial name
†Nesoenas rodericanus (Milne-Edwards, 1873)
Location of Rodrigues
Synonyms
Columba rodericana Milne-Edwards, 1873 Streptopelia rodericana Ptilinopus rodericana Nesoenas picturatus rodericanus Alectroenas rodericana Rothschild, 1907

The Rodrigues pigeon or Rodrigues dove (Nesoenas rodericanus) is an extinct species of pigeon formerly endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. It is known from a subfossil sternum and some other bones, and the descriptions of Leguat (1708) and Julien Tafforet (1726).