Bleeding-hearts and Allies
Gallicolumba
Gallicolumba is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family Columbidae), most of which occur in rainforests on the Philippines. Local name 'punay' which is a general term for pigeons and doves. They are not closely related to the American ground doves genus (Columbina and related genera). Rather, the present genus is closest to the thick-billed ground pigeon.
The Filipino species are known as bleeding-hearts due to their vivid-red patch on the breast, which looks startlingly like a bleeding wound in some species and has reminded naturalists of a dagger stab. The diet of doves of this genus consists of fruits and seed.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Luzon Bleeding-heart
speciesGallicolumba luzonica
Mindanao Bleeding-heart
speciesGallicolumba crinigera
Cinnamon Ground-Dove
speciesGallicolumba rufigula
Negros Bleeding-heart
speciesGallicolumba keayi
Sulawesi Ground-Dove
speciesGallicolumba tristigmata
Sulu Bleeding-heart
speciesGallicolumba menagei
Mindoro Bleeding-heart
speciesGallicolumba platenae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3132.