Alternative name: Yellow-banded Fruit-dove
- Ptilinopus solomonensis
Identification
19–22 cm
- Green overall plumage
- Mauve forehead
- Broad yellow breast band
- Yellow vent and under-tail coverts
Distribution
Southeast Asia: found in Indonesia, Papuan Islands
Australasia: Papua New Guinea, Timor Island, Melanesia, Solomon Islands
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 9 subspecies[1]:
- P. s. speciosus: Numfor, Biak and Yapen islands
- P. s. johannis: Admiralty Islands, St. Matthias Group and New Hanover
- P. s. meyeri: New Britain and satellite islands
- P. s. neumanni: Nissan Island (west Solomon Islands)
- P. s. bistictus: Solomon Islands (Bougainville and Buka)
- P. s. vulcanorum: South-western Solomon Islands
- P. s. ocularis: Guadalcanal (south-eastern Solomon Islands)
- P. s. ambiguus: Malaita Island (eastern Solomon Islands)
- P. s. solomonensis: Solomon Islands (Makira and Ugi)
Habitat
Moist lowland forests on smaller outlier islands.
Behaviour
Basically frugivorous. but little detail is known.
Referenes
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-bibbed_Fruit_Dove
