Critically Endangered
Negros Bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba keayi
The Negros bleeding-heart is a ground-dwelling dove endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay in the Philippines.
Appearance
Among the other bleeding hearts, this species is distinguished by its long vertical "heart", bright green color, distinguished white "V" shaped wingbar and breast-side bar.
Range and habitat
The Negros bleeding-heart is a ground-dwelling dove endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay in the Philippines. Critically endangered, its population is declining due to deforestation and trapping for both bushmeat and the illegal wildlife trade. The species inhabits tropical moist lowland forests and has an extremely small, severely fragmented population.
The increasing rate of forest loss on the two islands suggests that the species will continue to decline. Provide protection for existing habitats like the Northern Negros Forest reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The species predominantly feeds on plant material, although there is some potential evidence to suggest that they may also occasionally feed on ground invertebrates. In captivity, the male's heart appears to get brighter and more red during breeding season.
In crisis
The population is estimated to be just 50 - 249 mature individuals. It is illegal to hunt, capture or possess Negros bleeding-hearts under Philippine Law RA 9147. It is critically endangered with the population estimated to be 50–249 mature individuals remaining.
By 2007, Negros and Panay had a 3% and 6% remaining forest cover with most of this being higher elevation forest, where the species does not thrive in. In 2025, the Mandai Wildlife Group sent back 10 individuals to Talarak Foundation, Negros Forest Park in Bacolod managed by the Talarak Foundation.
Negros 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 Negros Bleeding-heart, Wikidata item Q585535. 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.
