Negros Fruit Dove

Negros Fruit DoveThe Negros Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon known from a single female collected on Negros Island in the Philippines in 1953. No later record has definitively confirmed the species.What does it look like?The female specimen had dark green plumage, an ashy-grey forehead, and a bare yellow ring around the eye. Its throat was white and its undertail and vent were yellow; yellow feather fringes looked like a wing bar when it was perched.What is known about its records and behavior?The Negros Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon known from a single female collected on Negros Island in the Philippines in 1953. No later record has definitively confirmed the species.The specimen was collected from a fruiting tree, alongside another bird suspected to be its mate. Nothing else is known about its behavior.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.