Concluding that it was a new species of fruit dove (Ptilinopus), they named it P. arcanus, after the Latin word for “secret” or “hidden.” Over the years, many have tried — and failed ...

The aviary team at Waddesdon Manor, just over the Oxfordshire border in Buckinghamshire, successfully bred the Socorro dove, which became extinct in the wild in the 1970s. Two chicks, known as squabs, ...