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Banded fruit dove

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Banded fruit dove
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species:
P. cinctus
Binomial name
Ptilinopus cinctus
Temminck, 1810

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

The banded fruit dove is found in Bali, and Lesser Sunda Islands. Its habitat is in monsoonal rainforest.

Behaviour and ecology

Breeding

It lays a single egg on an open platform of sticks in a forest tree.

Feeding

It eats fruit from forest trees, especially figs.

References

  1. ^ 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.