Singapore turns over critically endangered pigeons to the Philippines after milestone breeding effort


The Negros bleeding heart pigeon has a vivid red or orange patch of plumage on its breast that resembles a puncture wound. -- PHOTO: MANDAI WILDLIFE GROUP/FACEBOOK

MANILA/SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): In a first, 10 critically endangered Negros bleeding-heart pigeons were turned over on Jan 15 to the Philippines by Singapore’s Mandai Wildlife Group.

The pigeon – so called because of a vivid red or orange patch of plumage on its breast that resembles a puncture wound – is endemic to the Philippines.

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