Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Ptilinopus > Ptilinopus leclancheriPtilinopus leclancheri (Black-chinned Fruit Dove)Synonyms: Ramphiculus leclancheri (homotypic); Trerolaema leclancheri (homotypic) 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 family Columbidae. 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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.42386 EDGE Score: 2.13107 |
Adult Weight [1] | 162 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 100 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 33 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 33 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 33 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1OBSERVATIONS OF FRUGIVOROUS BIRDS AT FRUIT-BEARING PLANTS IN THE NORTH NEGROS FOREST RESERVE, PHILIPPINES, Martin Heindl & Eberhard Curio, ECOTROPICA 5: 167-181, 1999 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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