blue eyed ground dove chick seen

First Blue-eyed Ground-dove chick recorded

First one since decades ago

 

Conservation planning for the Blue-eyed ground-dove ( and the Alagoas antwren ) :

http://cpsg.org/sites/cbsg.org/file...ove Conservation Planning Workshop Report.pdf

 

Quite recently, a pair of blue-eyed ground dove chicks hatched from wild-collected eggs at a breeding centre in Brazil. They have been successfully hand-reared.

Information comes from a video uploaded yesterday to the Facebook page of Toledo Zoo, one of the partners in this conservation project.
The Toledo Zoo