{"id":43390,"date":"2013-07-25T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:58","slug":"japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/en-endangered\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Wood Pigeon Columba janthina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese (or Black) Wood Pigeon is a species that only inhabits offshore islands or rocky forested headlands. It is usually very shy and keeps to dark forests. There are several subspecies, some of which are critically endangered. They are quite susceptible to any kind of disturbance and also pressures from other pigeons and doves that compete in their niche.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet:  Japanese Wood Pigeon Columba janthina <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-393-43390\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3313\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2641.jpg\" title=\"An adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) perched at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"An adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) perched at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2641.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3312\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2631.jpg\" title=\"Two adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Two adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2631.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3311\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2626.jpg\" title=\"Two adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Two adult Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina) at the edge of a dark forest on a headland in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-wood-pigeon-columba-janthina-john-a-wright-2626.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Wood Pigeon (Columba janthina)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese (or Black) Wood Pigeon is a species that only inhabits offshore islands or rocky forested headlands. It is usually very shy and keeps to dark forests. There are several subspecies, some of which are critically endangered. They are quite susceptible to any kind of disturbance and also pressures from other pigeons and doves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":837644,"parent":42868,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43390","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43390\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}