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Superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus)
Subject: Superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus)
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Bird illustration by Elizabeth Gould for Birds of Australia, digitally enhanced from rawpixel's own facsimile book398 - superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus).jpg
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Superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus)


Superb Fruit Pigeon (Ptilinopus superbus) illustrated by Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841) for John Gould’s (1804-1881)
Source: The Birds of Australia
Date: 1840 - 1848
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The superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus), also known as the purple-crowned fruit dove, is a medium-sized, colourful fruit-dove in the family Columbidae. Ptilinopus superbus is sexually dimorphic. Males are superbly coloured with a fiery orange nape, green ears, and a purple crown. Female doves are mostly green, with a white abdomen, blue wing tips, light blue breast, and a small, dark blue spot on the back of the head. Both sexes have yellow eyes and eye-rings. Despite its colourful plumage, the superb fruit dove is well-camouflaged amongst the rainforest foliage. Native to Australasia, the superb fruit doves live in the rainforests of New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Sulawesi of Indonesia.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus superbus Temminck, 1809

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