Philippine Cuckoo-Dove

About the Philippine Cuckoo-Dove

The Philippine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Philippines and Taiwan and is rated as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species.

The Philippine cuckoo-dove was first described by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte in 1854. Formerly, some authorities classified it as a subspecies of either the ruddy cuckoo-dove or the brown cuckoo-dove. It was split from the slender-billed cuckoo-dove in 2016 and has four sub-species recognized:

M. t. phaea McGregor, 1904 - Lanyu Island, Batan Island, and Calayan Island M. t. tenuirostris Bonaparte, 1854 - Philippines M. t. borneensis Robinson & Kloss, 1921 - Borneo. Provisionally moved from ruddy cuckoo-dove to Macropygia tenuirostris by the IOU.

M. t. septentrionalis Hachisuka, 1930 - Batan, Itbayat and Sabtan Islands (northern Philippines); Lanyu Island (Taiwan). The Philippine cuckoo-dove is a large cuckoo-dove that measures 38.5 centimetres (15.2 in) in length, and weighs 157 to 191 g (5.5 to 6.7 oz). The head is cinnamon reddish brown... Wikipedia →