Orange Dove
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Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae

[Photo] Aitutaki, Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor victor). Source: Bird Stamp of Cook Island. URL: www.birdtheme.org/mainlyimages/index.php?s=72&oneeach=1

The Orange Dove or orange fruit-dove(Ptilinopus victor), also known as Flame Dove, is a small, approximately 20 cm (8 in) long, short-tailed fruit-dove in the family Columbidae. One of the most colorful doves, the male has a golden olive head and elongated bright orange "hair-like" body feathers. The golden-olive remiges are typically covered by the long orange wing coverts when perched. The legs, bill and orbital skin are bluish-green and the iris is whitish. The female is a dark green bird with blackish tail and orange-yellow undertail coverts. The young resembles female.

The Orange Doves are distributed and endemic to forests of Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Rabi, Kioa, Qamea and Laucala islands of Fiji. The diet consists mainly of various small fruits, berries, caterpillars and insects. The female usually lays one white egg.

The Orange Dove is closely related to the allopatric Whistling Dove and Golden Dove.

A common species throughout its limited range, the Orange Dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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