Negros, Philippines

The Bird That Lives
in a Sketch

Ptilinopus arcanus

We know it from a handful
of skins, and one sketch.

collected 1896 · drawn once · never photographed

Home Range

Lowland forest of Negros,
under Mount Kanlaon.

cleared for cane and pasture, decade after decade

Critically Endangered

0

confirmed sightings this decade

A species held in memory
is not yet lost.

sketches, specimens, records —
how we refuse to let it go