Beautiful Fruit-Dove
Ptilinopus pulchellus
A small fruit-dove of moist lowland and foothill forest. Crimson forehead, yellow bill, pale gray from face to chest and orange-yellow belly separated by a dark red chest band. Prefers mid-elevation forest in high rainfall areas where it forages actively for fruit at all levels in the trees. Separated from similar Ornate Fruit-Dove by yellow belly and Coroneted Fruit-Dove by its darker cap and gray chest. Call, a slow, mournful, falling “woo-ooo” or an accelerating series of quicker, seesaw “wooloo”.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Ptilinopus pulchellus
- Authority
- (Temminck, 1835)
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Ptilinopus
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
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