Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Ptilinopus regina
Tiny green and yellow dove. Yellow-orange belly and vent (note Superb Fruit-Dove has a white belly and vent). Pink forehead, gray face and neck, and often a pinkish area on upper belly. Found in rainforests, but also in coastal vine forest. This species calls frequently, and typically with a long series of gradually accelerating notes.
识别特征
The rose-crowned fruit dove is 22 cm (8.7 in) long and has a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. It has a pinkish-red crown with yellow border. The Indonesian subspecies, P. r. xanthogaster, has a whitish crown and paler grey head and breast. Both sexes are similar. The young has a green-colored crown and plumage.
分类信息
The rose-crowned fruit dove was formally described in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson. He considered his specimens as a variant of the grey-green fruit dove (Ptilinopus purpuratus) and specified the scientific name as Ptilinopus purpuratus var. Regina. The type locality is New South Wales.<p>Five subspecies are recognised:
- 学名
- Ptilinopus regina
- 命名信息
- Swainson, 1825
- 目
- Columbiformes
- 科
- Columbidae
- 属
- Ptilinopus
分布与栖息地
The rose-crowned fruit dove is distributed in lowland rainforests of northern and eastern Australia, and monsoon forests of northern Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of various fruits, palms and vines. The female usually lays a single white egg.<p>Widespread and common throughout its large range, the rose-crowned fruit dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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