Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Pink-spotted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus perlatus) - HBW 4, p. 209
French: Ptilope perlé
German: Perlenfruchttaube
Spanish: Tilopo Perlado
Other common names: Pink-spotted Fruit-pigeon
Taxonomy: Columba perlata Temminck, 1835, Lobo Bay, New Guinea.
Very closely related to extensively sympatric P. ornatus, although the two species tend to be ecologically separated; other members of species-group are P. tannensis, P. aurantiifrons, P. wallacii and, in some accounts, P. superbus. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- perlatus (Temminck, 1835) - W Papuan Is (Waigeo, Salawati), NW New Guinea (E to R Memberamo and Triton Bay) and Yapen.
- plumbeicollis (A. B. Meyer, 1890) - NE New Guinea from Astrolabe Bay to Huon Gulf.
- zonurus (Salvadori, 1876) - Aru Is and S New Guinea (along coast from base of Snow Mts) to Fergusson I and Goodenough I.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a leafless tree, singing and flying away. Locality Nimbokrang Forest, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp perlatus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 July 2008 3 years ago 40 sec 3.8
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Adult bird perched on a branch.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (ssp perlatus)
Tomasz Doroń 5 July 2010 1 year ago 3.3 -
Hazy picture of perched bird
Locality Varirata National Park, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea
mark sutton 9 August 2008 3 years ago 2.6
- No sound recordings available yet
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