Scarlet-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus bernsteinii)

Query: Columbidae

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Subject:	Scarlet-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus bernsteinii)
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Nederlands: Prachtjufferduif (Ptilinopus bernsteinii)
English: Scarlet-breasted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus bernsteinii)
Title Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49105330#page/80/mode/1up
Author Steendruk van PWM Trap
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_bernsteinii.jpg

The scarlet-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus bernsteinii) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Ptilinopus bernsteinii is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The scarlet-breasted fruit doves are small or medium-sized birds with a grey head which has a green wash. The rest of the upperparts and breast are bright green in colour. The male is patched with bright scarlet, at the middle of the lower breast. It has an orange-yellow belly, and chestnut undertail coverts. The underwing coverts are also orange-yellow.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus bernsteinii (Schlegel, 1863)

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