Many-coloured Fruit-dove

Taxobox
name = Many-coloured Fruit-dove


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = "Ptilinopus"
species = "P. perousii"
binomial = "Ptilinopus perousii"
binomial_authority = Peale, 1848
synonyms =

The Many-coloured Fruit-dove ("Ptilinopus perousii") is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It occurs on islands in the south-west Pacific Ocean where it is found in Fiji, the Samoan Islands, and Tonga. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It usually feeds high in the canopy on fruit and berries, especially figs. The nest is a small platform of twigs where one white egg is laid.

It is a small dove, 23 cm in length. The male is mostly pale yellow-white with a red crown and red bar across the back. The female is mostly green, darker on the back and greyer on the head and breast. Her crown is red while the undertail-coverts are red in Samoan birds and yellow in birds from Fiji and Tonga.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48848/all Ptilinopus perousii] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
* Watling, Dick (2001) "A Guide to the Birds of Fiji & Western Polynesia", Environmental Consultants (Fiji), Suva.