Banded fruit dove
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| Banded fruit dove | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Ptilinopus |
| Species: | P. cinctus
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| Ptilinopus cinctus | |
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The banded fruit dove or black-backed fruit dove (Ptilinopus cinctus) is a large (38–44 cm in length, 450-570 g in weight) pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head.
Distribution and habitat
[edit | edit source]The banded fruit dove is found in Bali, and Lesser Sunda Islands. Its habitat is in monsoonal rainforest.
Behaviour and ecology
[edit | edit source]Breeding
[edit | edit source]It lays a single egg on an open platform of sticks in a forest tree.
Feeding
[edit | edit source]It eats fruit from forest trees, especially figs.
References
[edit | edit source]- BirdLife International. (2006). Species factsheet: Ptilinopus cinctus. Downloaded from https://web.archive.org/web/20210828092113/https://www.birdlife.org/ on 1 February 2007
- Higgins, P.J.; & Davies, S.J.J.F. (Eds.). (1996). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 3. Snipe to Pigeons. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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