Negros fruit dove
The Negros fruit dove ("Ptilinopus arcanus") is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae. It is endemic to the island of Negros in the Philippines. This fruit dove is known from a single female specimen collected from the slopes of Mount Kanlaon in the northern part of the island. While it was found at a high elevation, it is suspected that the species originally lived in the lowland dipterocarp forests and was driven to higher elevations by habitat destruction. While some have suggested that the specimen is either a runt or a hybrid instead of a valid species, this is not widely accepted. The female Negros fruit dove was a small fruit dove with vivid dark green plumage and an ashy-grey forehead. It had a distinctive ring of bare yellow skin around its eye, and yellow fringes to some of its feathers gave it the appearance of having a yellow wingbar when perched. The throat was white, while the undertail and vent were yellow.

The original specimen was shot along with a bird suspected to be its mate from a fruiting tree. Nothing else is known about its behavior. The species has not been definitively reported since its original discovery in 1953, and as several searches of Mount Kanlaon and the surrounding forests have not discovered any sign of the bird, many believe that it may be extinct. However, a local hunter from southern Negros claimed to have shot it the nineties, and the discovery of many species formerly thought endemic to Negros on the nearby island of Panay have given some hope that the species may persist. As such, it is currently listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Any surviving population would be very small, likely numbering fewer than 50 individuals, and would be threatened by habitat destruction and hunting.
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bird
Concept
Q10856
Columbidae
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Q123452
endemic
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Q212777
Negros
LOC
Q928
Philippines
LOC
Q1723814
Mount Kanlaon
LOC
Q580593
dipterocarp
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Q7380114
runt
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Q42621
hybrid
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Q743573
fruit dove
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Q332359
Panay
LOC
Q219127
Critically Endangered
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Q48268
IUCN
ORG
Q552431
habitat destruction
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Q338746
Negros fruit dove
Concept
Q338746
Negros fruit dove
Concept
1953-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1953
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50
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parent taxon
IUCN conservation status
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