Banded Fruit-Dove

Banded Fruit-Dove

Taxobox
name = Banded Fruit-Dove
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = "Ptilinopus"
species = "P. cinctus"
binomial = "Ptilinopus cinctus"
binomial_authority = Temminck, 1810

The Banded 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 and neck by broad black band.

Distribution

Bali, Lesser Sunda Islands and Australia, where it is restricted to the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment.

Habitat

Patches of monsoonal rainforest.

Food

Fruit from forest trees, especially figs.

Nesting

Lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree.

References

* BirdLife International. (2006). Species factsheet: "Ptilinopus cinctus". Downloaded from http://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. ISBN 0-19-553070-5


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