Alternative name: Blue-crowned Fruit Dove
- Ptilinopus monacha
Identification
16-18 cm
- cap blue bordered by bright yellow flash stripe
- malar patches and breast patch blue
- throat stripe yellow
- ventral areas and undertail-coverts pale yellow
- rest of plumage rich green
Female similar but only weakly marked blue cap and no blue breast patch. Juveniles with more conspicuous yellow fringes to wing feathers.
Distribution
Found on Halmahera, Ternate, Bacan and adjacent islands in the northern Moluccas, Indonesia.
Moderately common but difficult to observe.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Lowland forest up to 750 m, mangroves and coastal woodland.
Behaviour
The diet includes fruit.
No information on breeding or movements.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.4). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)
- Avibase
- BirdLife International
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Blue-capped Fruit Dove. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-capped_Fruit_Dove
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
