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New Species of Imperial Pigeon Identified


A previously unrecognized species of the fruit-eating pigeon genus Ducula inhabits the remote island of Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines’ Sulu Archipelago, according to Delaware Museum of Nature & Science’s Dr. Matthew Halley.

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