Beautiful fruit dove

Beautiful fruit dove
At Artis Zoo , Netherlands
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Ptilinopus
Species:	P. pulchellus
Binomial name
Ptilinopus pulchellus (Temminck, 1835)

The beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus), also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove, is a small, approximately 19 cm (7+1⁄2 in) long, mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow bill and purplish-red feet. It has a blue-grey breast and yellowish orange belly, with a reddish purple patch in between. Both sexes are similar.

The beautiful fruit dove is distributed in rainforests of New Guinea and the islands of Batanta, Waigeo, Salawati and Misool in West Papua, Indonesia, primarily in flat terrain.^[2] The female usually lays a single white egg.

Its diet consists mainly of various fruits from trees, palms and

) berries. Despite their small size, they are able to swallow fruits of 5 cm³ volume, which would translate into a diameter of about 2 cm in spherical fruit. (Frith et al. 1976)

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the beautiful fruit dove is evaluated as

of Threatened Species.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Frith, H.J.; Rome, F.H.J.C. & Wolfe, T.O. (1976): Food of fruit-pigeons in New Guinea. Emu 76(2): 49–58. HTML abstract

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ptilinopus pulchellus.

• BirdLife Species Factsheet