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Ptilinopus leclancheri (Black-chinned Fruit Dove)

Synonyms: Ramphiculus leclancheri (homotypic); Trerolaema leclancheri (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.42386
EDGE Score: 2.13107

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  162 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  33 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  33 %
Forages - Understory [2]  33 %
Clutch Size [3]  1

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines No

Prey / Diet

Canarium asperum[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ducula bicolor (Pied Imperial Pigeon)1
Ducula poliocephala (Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon)1
Penelopides panini (Tarictic Hornbill)1
Ptilinopus occipitalis (Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove)1

External References

Citations

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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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