Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia macassariensis
A large, long-tailed dove with buff underparts barred from throat to undertail and uniformly earth-brown upperparts. Male shows a brown nape and head, females a pale head and a barred nape. Juvenile like female. Found in forested lowlands and forest edge. A recently described species restricted to a handful of islands in the Flores Sea, and possibly southwest Sulawesi too, where the completely barred underside of Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove would distinguish it from Sultan’s Cuckoo-Dove. Gives a single-noted, burry “wooooaaa.”
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Macropygia macassariensis
- Authority
- Wallace, 1865
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Macropygia
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
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