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Alternative name: Slaty Cuckoo-Dove

Turacoena modesta

[edit] Identification

• 38.5 cm
• Body dark bluish-slate, head and underparts rather paler
• Long wings and tail almost black
• Greenish iridescence on crown, nape, neck, breast and upper mantle
• Yellow orbital skin.

[edit] Distribution

South-east Asia: Indonesia, eastern Lesser Sundas (Timor and Wetar)

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Primary and tall secondary monsoon-forest, vine thickets, thickly vegetated gullies and eucalyptus woodland with dense understorey, from sea-level to 1,770 m.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fruit.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. BirdLife International

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages