Black-chinned Fruit-Dove

Ptilinopus leclancheri

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The Black-chinned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus leclancheri), also known as the Black-throated Fruit Dove or Leclancher's Dove, is a medium-sized (up to 27 cm long) bird of the Columbidae family. The male is a colorful bird with a green belly and wings, a brown tail, a whitish grey head and neck with a purple base, red iris and a small black patch under its yellow bill. The female has a green head, neck and breast.
The Black-chinned Fruit Dove is distributed in lowland forests of Taiwan and the Philippines, where it is fairly common. On Taiwan, it is very rare, known only from four specimens.

ssp gironieri, Busuanga. 4

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  1. (c) Carmelo López Abad, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Carmelo López Abad
  2. (c) markaharper1, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-chinned_Fruit-Dove_(1805679028).jpg
  3. Adaptado por Carmelo López Abad de uma obra de (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptilinopus_leclancheri
  4. (c) Carmelo López Abad, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)

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