Critically Endangered
Mindoro Bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba platenae
Mindoro Bleeding-heart is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Gallicolumba platenae, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Philippines.
Appearance
It has a dark grey forehead that transitions into an iridescent green on its head, nape, and hindneck. Its underside–from its throat to its flanks–is a cream-white except for the distinctive patch on the center of its breast that resembles a bright bleeding wound. The dove's backside contains a reddish purple on its mantle, as well as chestnut coloration on its wings and rump.
This ground pigeon has been recorded to be around 26 to 30 cm (10 to 12 in) tall. Females look similar to males but have purple irises and are generally smaller, with a 141–154 mm (5.6–6.1 in) wingspan (compared to 150–154 mm (5.9–6.1 in) in males).
Range and habitat
The Mindoro bleeding-heart dove is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. It has only been observed in four regions of the island since 1980, as deforestation has dwindled its preferred habitat of closed-canopy primary forest. This bird favors dry forest floors overrun with bamboos and rattans, occasionally dotted with limestone outcrops and boulders.
The Mindoro bleeding-heart, also referred to as kulo-kulo, la-do, manatad, manuk-manuk, punay, and puñalada by the Mangyan, is a ground dove native solely to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. A conservation study in 1991 found that the island of Mindoro is particularly susceptible to endemism, as it has the least forest cover of any Philippine island after the Sulu Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It has been recorded breeding from February to May. According to one account, a female was seen feigning injury so as to distract from the nest she was incubating.
In crisis
It is critically endangered and threatened by habitat loss through quarrying, land conversion and illegal logging. The IUCN Red List classifies it as Critically Endangered with an estimate of just 50–249 mature individuals and a declining population. There are no individuals in captivity.
Its main threats are habitat loss and trapping. In 1988, just 120 km2 (46 sq mi) of forest remained on Mindoro, only 25% of that was closed-canopy.
Mindoro Bleeding-heart is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mindoro Bleeding-heart, Wikidata item Q1266313. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
