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Sulu Bleeding-heart

Gallicolumba menagei(Bourns, FS; Worcester, DC, 1894)

English (US) Sulu Bleeding-heart

Possibly extinct

The Sulu Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Columbidae (Doves and Pigeons) in the order Columbiformes.

Range: Tawitawi Island (Sulu Archipelago); known only from two specimens collected in 1891; probably extinctRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Gallicolumba menagei
IUCN Red List
Critically Endangered
English (US)
Sulu Bleeding-heart
Described by
(Bourns, FS; Worcester, DC, 1894)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Phlogoenas menagei
Described by
(Bourns, FS; Worcester, DC, 1894)
Type locality
Tawi Tawi.
Original description
Occasional Papers of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences 1 no.1 p.10

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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