BirdUp · Species
Superb Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus superbus(Temminck, 1809)
Native
- Order
- COLUMBIFORMES
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Ptilinopus
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The superb fruit dove, also known as the purple-crowned fruit dove, is a medium-sized, colourful fruit-dove in the family Columbidae.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Sulawesi to east Australia, Bismarck Arch. and east-central Solomon Is.
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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