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Rare Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeons spotted in Mount Hamiguitan after years

A pair of Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeons has been documented in the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary in Davao Oriental for the first time in nearly seven years. The Depar...

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...

Some Birds of PICOP, Mindanao, The Philippines

PICOP is a collection of sites near Bislig in Mindanao. In the late 50s to the early 60s, it was a logging concession awarded to the Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines...

Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. On April 20, on the south coast of Timor-Leste,...

Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds

PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — The forest settles into a gentle rhythm as the trail climbs into the Iraya Mangyan ancestral domain in Puerto Galera town, on the Philippines’ Mindoro...

A few more birds of Luzon, The Philippines

After writing a few posts about different locations and bird species in the Philippines, there are a few birds left, which this post – rather like the broom wagon picking up the st...

Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor green pige...

The Colorful Guest That Never Left

Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) are one of the world’s most popular game birds, prized as a culinary delicacy and for their beautiful plumage. Although this species is...

Colorful Himalayan pheasants face a less rosy future under human pressure

In the Indian Himalayas, numerous species of colorful pheasants roam the understory, pecking at seeds, roots, leaves, berries, and insects. These large, ornate birds are vital to t...

Australia's Rainforest Birds

The rainforests of Eastern and Northeastern Australia harbor many species of birds found almost nowhere else. This Eastern Whipbird — which is more often heard than seen — hangs ou...

A Camera Trap Rediscovered a Bird Lost to Science for 140 Years

A motion-activated camera captured the first confirmed images of a black-naped pheasant-pigeon since 1882. The rare ground-dwelling bird, known locally as Auwo, was photographed on...

From one deer’s DNA, a road map emerges to save an endangered Philippine species

The net fell with a dull thud. Abraham thrashed once, twice, then went still. A metal notcher clicked against the soft cartilage of his ear, snipping a tiny piece of tissue into et...

Young Philippine Serpent Eagle rescued in Kidapawan, now in rehab

A juvenile Philippine Serpent Eagle is undergoing rehabilitation after a resident found the weakened bird in a rubber plantation in Kidapawan City, according to the Department of E...

A shy bird found only in Nepal is waiting for the world to notice

Nepal’s shrubby hillsides are home to a medium-sized bird with brownish upperparts, distinctive black streaks from the shafts of its feathers and, sometimes, a chalky white facial...

The race to document Indigenous knowledge to protect Philippines’ birds

In the forests of the Philippines’ Mindoro Island, an urgent effort is underway to record the vanishing ecological knowledge of the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan community. As elders ag...

Three Photos: Malkohas

Chestnut-breasted Malkoha, Sepilok, Jul 2023 Raffles Malkoha, Sepilok, Jul 2023 Red-billed Malkoha, Kaeng Krachan NP, Jul 2025 Green-billed Malkoha, Kaeng Krachan NP, Jul 2025 Red-...

Genetic road map offers hope for threatened Visayan spotted deer

Scientists have sequenced the first-ever draft genome of the Philippines’ highly threatened Visayan spotted deer. The genome could guide efforts to save it from extinction, reports...

Endangered pawikan released in Zamboanga del Norte

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – A female endangered green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was successfully documented, tagged, and released by the Department of Environment and Natu...

The Rock Dove We Stopped Counting

By Vitaly Vitaly runs Hush Hollow, a small online store of field-guide-inspired apparel. He has been looking at the pigeons outside his window with rather more respect since he sta...

Three Photos: Abstract Birds (Part 2)

Silver-eared Mesia Brown-breasted Kingfisher White-winged Magpie Red-whisked Bulbul Indochinese Green Magpie Art by JW.

Indigenous Indonesians find solution for endangered cockatoo

The people of Seram Island have found a way to harvest feathers important for ceremony without harming charismatic birds The post Indigenous Indonesians find solution for endangere...

Blooms and birds in the yard

It was late March and this was the first time the philodendrons have bloomed in the backyard in the almost 5 years we have lived here. So many other plants were also blooming. Litt...

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Pigeon Found In Border Village With Ring Likely Bearing Pakistani Number

The police said they are verifying whether the bird was being used for cross-border messaging, a tactic suspected to have been used in the past.