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.
