Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove in Mt. Kitanglad [HD]

Here's sharing with you a short video clip of a Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove trying to collect twigs as nesting material. This was taken during one of our custom tours for Jeepney Projects Worldwide. Jeepney Projects Worldwide is a partnering of benefit art projects and regional conservation groups working to inspire support and restore lost habitat of critically endangered birds. They are doing an art benefit project for the Philippine Eagle Foundation in conserving the Philippines' national bird, the Great Philippine Eagle. The Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove is one of the five endemic fruit-doves found in the Philippines. It can be found allover the country except the Palawan region and inhabits forest and forest edge in lowland and montane forests usually taking advantage of fruiting trees. Locally called Punay, it is one of the most colorful fruit-doves in the Philippines. Which one do you think is prettier, this Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove or its high-elevation-Luzon-only cousin, Flame-breasted Fruit-dove? Yellow-breasted Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis January 2011, Mt. Kitanglad, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines Video by Nicky Icarangal, JR. Digiscoped with a Swarovski ATM 80 HD, Canon Powershot S95.

2 thoughts on “Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove in Mt. Kitanglad [HD]”

  1. Awesome bird!!! ….and thank you for showing this to us. I wonder what varities of fruits they like to eat. I want to believe they also would eat Pili nuts, but those might be too large for their beak and throat.

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