Grey-headed Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus hyogastrus(Temminck, CJ, 1824)
English (US) Gray-headed Fruit Dove
UK name: Grey-headed Fruit Dove
The Grey-headed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Columbidae (Doves and Pigeons) in the order Columbiformes.
Range: northern Moluccas (Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan, Tidore, and Ternate)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ptilinopus hyogastrus
- Order
- Columbiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Gray-headed Fruit Dove
- English (UK)
- Grey-headed Fruit Dove
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1824)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Columba hyogastra
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1824)
- Type locality
- Celebes, error = Halmahera.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.43, vol.4 pl.252
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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