Wallace's Fruit-dove

Taxobox
name = Wallace's Fruit-dove


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status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = "Ptilinopus"
species = "P. wallacii"
binomial = "Ptilinopus wallacii"
binomial_authority = Gray, 1858The Wallace's Fruit-dove, "Ptilinopus wallacii" is a medium-sized, approximately 26cm long, green fruit-dove with a scarlet crown and forehead, whitish throat, orange shoulder patch, yellow bill, purplish feet and long green tail. It has a pale bluish-grey breast and neck, an orange belly, with a white patch in between. Both sexes are almost similar.

An Indonesian endemic, the Wallace's Fruit-dove is distributed in lowland forests of eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, southern Maluku, Aru Island and in southwestern New Guinea. The diet consists mainly of various small fruits and berries.

The name commemorates the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

Widespread and common throughout most of its range, the Wallace's Fruit-dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2671&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=48846 IUCN Red List]