Diet and Nutrition Mourning doves are herbivores (granivores), they eat a range of seeds, fruit, waste grain, and insects, preferring seeds that are on the ground. Sometimes they eat in bushes and trees when food on the ground is scarce.

When it comes to eating habits, doves have an omnivorous diet. This means doves eat seeds, fruit, plants and they occasionally eat insects, earthworms, and snails. Doves belong to the family Columbidae, which is the same family as a pigeon.

They eat fruit directly from the trees, or that which has been dropped to the ground by monkeys and hornbills. Their nostril are raised high on their upper bill like most doves. The Jambu fruit dove can put its entire bill in the water and drink by sucking it in.

Jambu Fruit Dove Reproduction The female builds a flimsy nest of twigs, roots and grasses, which are collected by her mate, in a tree and lays one or sometimes two white eggs which are incubated for about 20 days to hatching, with a further 12 or more days to fledging. Both parents help in raising the hatchling.

These colourful, frugivorous doves are found in forests and woodlands in Southeast Asia and Oceania. It is a large genus with over 50 species, some threatened or already extinct….Fruit dove.

Mariana fruit doves are threatened with extinction on their native islands. This threat is caused, in part, by tree snakes that have been introduced into their habitat. Habitat destruction has also taken its toll.

Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range, small population size and invasive alien species, the Mariana fruit dove is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

A: Here are the top 10 endangered species in the Philippines:

• Philippine Crocodile.
• Philippine Eagle.
• Tamaraw.
• Bombon Sardine (Tawilis)
• Sea Turtles.
• Calamian and Philippine spotted deer.
• Balabac mouse deer (Pilandok)
• Wild Pig (Baboy Damo)

Philippine crocodiles: world’s rarest The Philippine crocodile is the rarest crocodile in the world, and yet visitors to Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park have a good chance of seeing these animals in their native habitat.

The tamaraw, also known as the dwarf buffalo, is a critically endangered species found only on the island of Mindoro, with an estimated population of just 480. The tamaraw’s island stronghold is Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park, which is protected by 24 rangers and Indigenous volunteers.

The tamaraw is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with only 154 individuals documented in the year 2000. Iglit-Baco, the DENR-TCP works with organizations such as the Mindoro Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc.

Mindoro dwarf buffalo

It is considered to be one of the largest and most powerful among forest raptors. They are also listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with an estimated number of only 400 pairs left in the wild.

Philippine eagle

The Largest Eagles In The World

• Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
• White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
• American Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
• Steller’s Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)
• Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus)
• Haast’s Eagle (Harpagornis moorei)