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Negros Fruit-Dove

Ptilinopus arcanus

FAMILY

Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

LAST DOCUMENTED

1953

(71 years)

REGION

Asia

IUCN STATUS

Critically Endangered

Background

This tiny fruit-dove, with its distinctive ring of bare yellow skin about the eye, is known only from the island of Negros in the central Philippines. Aside from a single female that was collected on Mount Kanlaon in 1953, nothing else is known about this bird. Given this, it could be rediscovered high in the canopy of either lowland (Panay) or montane (Negros) forest.

Last Documented

Known only from a single specimen, which was collected from the island of Negros in the Philippines (May 1953; BirdLife International 2001).

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