Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove
Ptilinopus merrilli
A fairly large dove of lowland and low-elevation montane forest. Has green upperparts to the back of the neck, a gray head and chest, a creamy belly, and white under the base of the tail, scalloped green. Note the purple spot across the flight feathers. The race from northern Luzon has a dark red crown. Similar to Black-chinned Fruit-Dove, but Cream-breasted has a narrow chest band and a cream rather than green belly. Song is a drawn-out, deep quavering “brrrrrrr.”
分类信息
The cream-breasted fruit dove is one of over 50 species in the genus Ptilinopus. Within the genus, it is most closely allied with the flame-breasted fruit dove.<p>It was formerly placed in the obsolete genus Leucotreron. The species' generic name comes from the Greek ptilon (feather) and pous (foot), while the specific epithet is in honor of Elmer Drew Merrill, an American botanist. Alternative names for the cream-breasted fruit dove include Merrill's fruit dove.
- 学名
- Ptilinopus merrilli
- 命名信息
- (McGregor, 1916)
- 目
- Columbiformes
- 科
- Columbidae
- 属
- Ptilinopus
分布与栖息地
This frugivorous species is found chiefly in primary and selectively logged forest up to 1,300 m in the Sierra Madre.<p>This bird is listed as near-threatened with its primary threats being habitat loss and hunting for both food and the pet trade.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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