Makatea fruit dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus)

Query: Yellow dove

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Subject:	Makatea fruit dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus)
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Makatea fruit dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus)

Makatea Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus)
Date 23 June 2019
Source https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/17248691
Author (c) mikeggg, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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The Makatea fruit dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia island of Makatea in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and is also present near villages. Ptilinopus chalcurus has plumage of mostly green feathers with a dark purple crown and forehead, pale greenish-grey throat and chest, cloven lower chest feathers producing rows of shadows that appear as streaks, yellow underparts, tinged orange anteriorly.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus chalcurus (Gray, 1859)

Yellow dove
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