cream-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli)

Query: Columbiformes

Result: 221^st of 324

Subject:	cream-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli)
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Ptilinopus merrilli merrilli
Date 26 April 1979
Source https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/239326-Merrills_Fruit_Dove_Ptilinopus_merrilli-Fauna_-_Birds-Philippines
Author Philippine Postal Corporation
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_merrilli_1979_stamp_of_the_Philippines.jpg

The cream-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli) or cream-bellied fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Alternative names for the cream-breasted fruit dove include Merrill's fruit dove. Ptilinopus merrilli is endemic to the Luzon region of the Philippines. This frugivorous species is found chiefly in primary and selectively logged forest up to 1,300 m in the Sierra Madre.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus merrilli (McGregor, 1916)

Columbiformes
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