Banded fruit dove
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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
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
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- 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. Template:ISBN