Banded fruit dove
Banded fruit dove | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Ptilinopus |
Species: | P. cinctus |
Binomial name | |
Ptilinopus cinctus | |
Synonyms | |
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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]The banded fruit dove is found in Bali, and Lesser Sunda Islands. Its habitat is in monsoonal rainforest.
Behaviour and ecology
[edit]Breeding
[edit]It lays a single egg on an open platform of sticks in a forest tree.
Feeding
[edit]It eats fruit from forest trees, especially figs.
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ptilinopus cinctus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22691302A93308397. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691302A93308397.en. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ Temminck, 1809. Columba Cincta (protonym). Les Pigeons, par madame Knip. p. 58. BHL
- 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. ISBN 0-19-553070-5