Mindoro Bleeding-heart vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Gallicolumba platenae comparado con Ptilinopus mercierii

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Mindoro Bleeding-heart Red-moustached Fruit-dove
Nombre científico Gallicolumba platenae Ptilinopus mercierii
Orden Columbiformes Columbiformes
Familia Columbidae Columbidae
Estado de conservación Critically Endangered Extinct
Longitud
Envergadura 30,6 cm (12.0 in)
Peso 196,0 g (6.91 oz)
Dieta -- --
Tamaño de la puesta 2 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Mindoro Bleeding-heart only

Ninguno

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

Ninguno

Estado de conservación

Critically Endangered

Mindoro Bleeding-heart

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Mindoro Bleeding-heart

Plumaje

Mindoro Bleeding-heart: white below with small pink-red breast spot; dark brown above; bare facial skin; Mindoro island endemic

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

About These Birds

Mindoro Bleeding-heart

Medium ground dove, 25–28 cm, with brown upperparts, a large blood-red breast spot, and pale underparts. Endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Inhabits dense lowland primary forest. Terrestrial frugivore. Endangered due to severe deforestation reducing Mindoro's forest cover.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Red-moustached Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus mercierii), 27 cm. Green with a red moustachial streak and orange underparts; endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Last confirmed on Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Possibly Extinct; last reliably recorded in the 1970s. Threatened by introduced rats and cats.

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