Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus regina
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Date: November 28, 2006
Source: Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/marj_k/308846355/)
Author: marj k (www.flickr.com/photos/marj_k/)


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The rose-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus regina), also known as pink-capped fruit dove or Swainson's fruit dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22 cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. The rose-crowned fruit doves are distributed in lowland rainforests of northern and eastern Australia, and monsoon forests of northern Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia. Order: Columbiformes > Family: Columbidae > Genus: Ptilinopus > Species: Ptilinopus regina