Orange Dove

Taxobox
name = Orange Dove


image_width = 225px
image_caption = male
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = "Ptilinopus"
species = "P. victor"
binomial = "Ptilinopus victor"
binomial_authority = Gould, 1872The Orange Dove ("Ptilinopus victor"), also known as Flame Dove, is a small, approximately 20 cm (8 in) long, short-tailed fruit-dove in the family Columbidae. One of the most colorful doves, the male has a golden olive head and elongated bright orange "hair-like" body feathers. The golden-olive remiges are typically covered by the long orange wing coverts when perched. The legs, bill and orbital skin are bluish-green and the iris is whitish. The female is a dark green bird with blackish tail and orange-yellow undertail coverts. The young resembles female.

The Orange Dove is distributed and endemic to forests of Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Rabi, Kioa, Qamea and Laucala islands of Fiji. The diet consists mainly of various small fruits, berries, caterpillars and insects. The female usually lays one white egg.

The Orange Dove is closely related to the allopatric Whistling Dove and Golden Dove.

A common species throughout its limited range, the Orange 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=2702&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=48866 IUCN Red List]
* [http://www.internationaldovesociety.com/FruitSpecies/OrangeDove.htm Photos of a male Orange Dove.] International Dove Society.