Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove. Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove, Gallicolumba luzonica, at Birdworld, Farnham, West Sussex. Pic Mike During the breeding season, males attract females by showing an inflated breast to display their vivid blood marking or "heart". Bluish-gray on the head and back, with a pale gray forehead, a blackish wing, a pale gray shoulder and wingbars, a white throat, chest, and belly, and an obvious bright red "bleeding heart" in the center of the chest
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Agricultural expansion, logging, and urban development have significantly reduced their natural habitats, pushing these doves into increasingly isolated and smaller forest patches. The Luzon Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) is a striking bird species known for its distinctive coloration, marked by a bright red patch on the chest that gives an illusion of a bleeding heart
Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove Lincoln Park Zoo
"They live generally on the ground floor of the rainforest. Agricultural expansion, logging, and urban development have significantly reduced their natural habitats, pushing these doves into increasingly isolated and smaller forest patches. They live in forests on the islands of Luzon and Polillo in the northern Philippines
. The Luzon Bleeding-heart Pigeon gets its name from a dark, red patch of feathers on its breast that looks like a bleeding wound The Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica ) is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts"
. Unfortunately, the Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove's habitat is under severe threat due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation This classification reflects the evolutionary relationships and taxonomic placement of the Luzon Bleeding-Heart within the animal kingdom, chordate phylum, aves class, columbiformes order, columbidae family, Gallicolumba genus, and its specific species name, Gallicolumba luzonica