The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

For a long time, nobody has really known how the Cuban blue-headed quail dove arrived on the island. But now, […] ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out. On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for ...

There are roughly 1,000 mature blue-headed quail doves left in the wild, and according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, that number is still decreasing.