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Article: Puerto Rican Plain Pigeon food intake in a captive breeding program.
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- Endangered Species Update
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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The Puerto Rican Plain Pigeon (Columba inornata wetmorei) is one of the endangered species in the island of Puerto Rico. A captive breeding program was established from 1984 to 2001 at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Humacao Campus as a way of combating the decline of this species. The captive breeding program in UPR Humacao had the objective of establishing appropriate techniques for reproducing the species and produce individuals to be freed in the state forests. The captive program has been successful in its use of pigeon milk to feed the hatchlings by a surrogate mother or by hand. This led to the successful breeding of 44 pigeons in 1989, a record in captive ...
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