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Wallace's fruit dove
Summary
Wallace's fruit dove (Ptilinopus wallacii) is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae. The name commemorates the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. It is a rather large, long-tailed fruit dove with a length of and has been described as "one of the most beautiful" fruit doves. The forehead and are dull crimson, the lower face and throat are white, and the rest of the head, breast, neck, and upper back are pale bluish-grey. The wings and lower back are green and the belly is orange, separated from the chest by a white band. Both sexes look similar, but females have less extensive red on the head and a greenish tinge to their grey parts.
Endemic to Indonesia, Wallace's fruit dove is found in lowland riverine and coastal forests in the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, the Aru Islands, and occasionally in southwestern New Guinea. Its diet consists of small fruits and berries. Nests are made out of twigs in branches and the only observed nest was made in November. Common to moderately common throughout most of its range, the Wallace's fruit dove is evaluated as being of least concern on the IUCN Red List.
Wallace's fruit dove was described as Ptilonopus Wallacii by the English ornithologist George Robert Gray in 1858 on the basis of specimens from the Aru Islands acquired by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The species' generic name comes from the Ancient Greek ptilon (feather) and pous (foot), while the specific name wallacii is in honour of Alfred Wallace. Wallace's fruit dove is the official common name designated by the International Ornithologists' Union. Other common names for the species include Wallace's fruit pigeon, Wallace's green fruit dove, golden-fronted fruit dove, yellow-fronted fruit dove, golden-shouldered fruit dove, and crimson-capped fruit dove. It has no subspecies.
Wallace's fruit dove is one of over 50 species in the fruit dove genus Ptilinopus. A 2014 study of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA by Alice Cibois and colleagues found that Wallace's fruit dove was most closely related to a clade formed by the orange-fronted and ornate fruit doves.
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