Banded Fruit-Dove
Conservation status

Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Columbiformes

Family: Columbidae

Genus: Ptilinopus

Species: P. cinctus


Binomial name
Ptilinopus cinctus
Temminck, 1810
The Banded Fruit-Dove, Ptilinopus cinctus, is a large (38-44 cm in length, 450-570 g in weight) 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.

Contents [hide]
1 Distribution
2 Habitat
3 Food
4 Nesting
5 References



Distribution
Bali, Lesser Sunda Islands and Australia, where it is restricted to the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment.


Habitat
Patches of monsoonal rainforest.


Food
Fruit from forest trees, especially figs.


Nesting
Lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree.

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