Banded fruit dove

Banded fruit dove
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Ptilinopus
Species:	P. cinctus
Binomial name
	Ptilinopus cinctus; (Temminck, 1809)
Synonyms
	Columba Cincta (protonym);

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

^ 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

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[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.

[2] Temminck, 1809. Columba Cincta (protonym). Les Pigeons, par madame Knip. p. 58. BHL

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