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ROSE CROWNED FRUIT DOVE (Ptilinopus regina) ©Chris Charles, via ibc.lynxeds.com The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove, also known as Pink-capped Fruit Dove or Swainson’s Fruit Dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22 cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. It has a pinkish-red crown with yellow border.  Both sexes are similar. The young has a green-colored crown and plumage. The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove is distributed in lowland rainforests of eastern Australia, and monsoon forests of northern Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of various fruits, palms and vines. The female usually lays a single white egg. Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Rose-crowned Fruit Dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-crowned_Fruit_Dove Other photos you may enjoy: Ornate Fruit Dove Nicobar Pigeon Wompoo Fruit Dove

ROSE CROWNED FRUIT DOVE (Ptilinopus regina) ©Chris Charles, via ibc.lynxeds.com

The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove, also known as Pink-capped Fruit Dove or Swainson’s Fruit Dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22 cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. It has a pinkish-red crown with yellow border.  Both sexes are similar. The young has a green-colored crown and plumage.

The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove is distributed in lowland rainforests of eastern Australia, and monsoon forests of northern Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of various fruits, palms and vines. The female usually lays a single white egg.

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Rose-crowned Fruit Dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-crowned_Fruit_Dove

Other photos you may enjoy:

Ornate Fruit Dove

Nicobar Pigeon

Wompoo Fruit Dove

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