The beautiful fruit dove (''Ptilinopus pulchellus''), also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove, is a small, approximately long, mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow

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and purplish-red feet. It has a blue-grey breast and yellowish orange belly, with a reddish purple patch in between. Both sexes are similar. The beautiful fruit dove is distributed in rainforests of

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and the islands of

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and

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in West Papua,

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, primarily in flat terrain. The female usually lays a single white egg. Its diet consists mainly of various fruits from trees, palms and

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area, birds were found to eat a mixed diet in May. Large '' Tristiropsis canarioides'' fruit were taken when available, but the species gets displaced from fruiting trees by larger pigeons such as the collared imperial pigeon (''Ducula mullerii''). Small ''

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'' sp. fruit were very often eaten, but made up only a small quantity of food volume. Other food were '' Gymnacranthera paniculata'' and small quantities of ''

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'' palm fruit, and occasionally pepper ('' Piper'') berries. Despite their small size, they are able to swallow fruits of 5 cm³ volume, which would translate into a diameter of about 2 cm in spherical fruit. (Frith ''et al.'' 1976) Widespread and common throughout its large range, the beautiful fruit dove is evaluated as

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on the

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of Threatened Species.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography *Frith, H.J.; Rome, F.H.J.C. & Wolfe, T.O. (1976): Food of fruit-pigeons in New Guinea. ''

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