Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Ptilinopus > Ptilinopus victorPtilinopus victor (Orange Fruit Dove)Synonyms: Chrysoena victor The 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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.55261 EDGE Score: 1.87986 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [1] | 90 % | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 10 % | Forages - Canopy [1] | 33 % | Forages - Mid-High [1] | 33 % | Forages - Understory [1] | 33 % |  | Clutch Size [2] | 1 |
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Polynesia-Micronesia |
Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States |
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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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