The Negros fruit dove was described from a single specimen collected in the Philippines in 1953 — then never seen again by scientists. Now, thanks to advances in DNA sequencing, researchers and ...

Conservationists now hope that the dove could soon start recovering in numbers in the UK, due to a ban on hunting the birds in western Europe in France, Spain and Portugal which began in 2021.

Philippine wild doves, often brown, if not light brown-feathered, and sometimes grey-feathered birds, are masters of blending with their environment, whether in the dense forest or the city park ...

The practice of hunting groups posting grisly pictures of shot birds on their websites has provoked a backlash in the Philippines, WWF said. Hundreds of doves, mallards, whistling ducks ... Josef ...