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Birds: The Superb Fruit-Dove | A Rare Pink-Necked Green Pigeon

Album photos Collection N#426 What does it look like? The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons - Image N#1 Description:  The Superb Fruit-Dove is a small colourful pigeon of the tree canopy. It is a compact bird, with short rounded wings and a short tail. The male has a purple crown, an orange hindneck, a blue-black breastband that separates a grey upper breast from white underparts. These are partly barred green, and the rest of the body is green. The green tail has grey tips. The female is green, with a grey breast and white underparts. There is a smallish purple patch on the crown. Young birds resemble females but lack the purple crown patch. This species is also called the Purple-crowned Fruit Dove or Pigeon, or the Superb Fruit-Pigeon. The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons - Image N#2 Similar species:  The Superb Fruit-Dove is similar in size and, from the ground, often difficult to distinguish from the Rose-crowned Fruit-Dov...

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