Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia amboinensis
A large, long-tailed brown dove with a pale brown head and underparts and darker rufous-brown upperparts. Male displays limited barring on breast and a pale iridescent neck patch. Females show extensive barring on neck. Singles, pairs, and small groups inhabit forests, edges, gardens, and woodlands from sea level to the foothills. Larger than Black-billed Cuckoo-Dove and paler on underparts, without tail barring. Larger than Mackinlay’s Cuckoo-Dove, without breast spotting. Smaller than Great Cuckoo-Dove, with brown underside, unlike that species. Gives an incessant “whop-whop-whop-whop…”.
识别特征
The Amboyna cuckoo-dove is typically about 35–37 centimetres (14–15 in) long. Males tend to have a slight rose/green colouration on their nape and neck. In Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, many subspecies have whitish underparts, fine dark barring below and/or a whitish cap.<p>The call of this dove is a very loud "whoop-a whoop" with some differences depending on the subspecies involved.
分类信息
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Amboyna cuckoo-dove in his six volume Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on Ambon Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. He used the French name La tourterelle d'Amboine and the Latin Turtur amboinensis. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the Amboyna cuckoo-dove which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba amboinensis and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus Macropygia was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William John Swainson.<p>The Amboyna cuckoo-dove was formerly considered as conspecific with the sultan's cuckoo-dove (Macropygia doreya). The species was split based on an analysis of the vocalisations published in 2016.<p>Nine subspecies are recognized:
- 学名
- Macropygia amboinensis
- 命名信息
- (Linnaeus, 1766)
- 目
- Columbiformes
- 科
- Columbidae
- 属
- Macropygia
分布与栖息地
The Amboyna cuckoo-dove inhabits rainforest, woodland, scrubland and rainforest regrowth areas.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
The doves can often be seen in pairs or groups. Its diet consists of berries from both native plants and introduced weed species. They can be nomadic, depending on the supplies of food. They tend to fly short distances and low to the ground with great strength.<p>Breeding occurs in spring and summer. The nest is a flat platform of sticks and vines, either in a fork of a tree or on top of a low tree. One, creamy white, egg is laid.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- stable
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