BirdUp · Species
Black-banded Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus alligatorCollett, 1898
Endemic
- Order
- COLUMBIFORMES
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Ptilinopus
- Commonness
- Endemic
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The black-banded fruit dove is a large pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head and neck by broad black band.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Arnhem Land escarpment, central Top End, north-central NT (north-central Australia)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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