On 25 April 2011 , Samoa Post together WWF organisation released the issue WWF stamp features the brightly coloured bird , Ptilinopus perousii . The officially FDC also issued by Samoa Post on the same date.The local WWF cover has coloured and featured head of this species, Fruit dove, and has a specific post marked dated 25.04.2011. This issue stamp has designed by Karen Mounsey-Smith.
The Many-coloured Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus perousii), also known in Samoa as Manulua, is a small multi-coloured dove growing up to 250mm in length. They are primarily found in large mature forest areas in the south-western Pacific - Samoa, Fiji and Tonga - where lowland tropical and sub-tropical forests provide a natural habitat.
The male dove is a pale yellow-white colour with a red-crimson crown and bar across its back. The female is mostly green and grey on the head and breast with a red-crimson crown and under-tail area known as coverts. These red-crimson coverts differentiate these doves from those of Fiji and Tonga where the coverts are yellow.
These birds feed predominantly on fruit and berries found in the high canopy and are partial to figs and also the fruit of the banyan tree. They are very protective of their feeding areas. The population has led to a decreased tend to vulnerable under conservation criteria.
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