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A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing

A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country's rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to […]

A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing

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A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country's rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild.

Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to […]

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A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country's rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to […]

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