Banded fruit dove

Banded fruit dove
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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

Bali, and Lesser Sunda Islands.

Habitat

Patches of monsoonal rainforest.

Food

Fruit from forest trees, especially figs.

Nesting

Lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree.

References

1. BirdLife International (2013). "Ptilinopus cinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

• BirdLife International. (2006). Species factsheet: Ptilinopus cinctus. Downloaded from http://www.webcitation.org/5QE8rvIqH?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.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